"I am willing, anyway to do my best." Ralston looked at her with a gleam of approval, but the Colonel drew her aside to remonstrate.
"It's not fit for you.

You'll be ill yourself.

If Ralston weren't nearly at his wit's end he'd never dream of allowing it." But Stella heard the protest with a smile.

"Believe me, I am only too glad to be able to do something useful for a change," she assured him.
"As to being ill myself, I will promise not to behave so badly as that." "You're a brick, my dear," said Colonel Mansfield.

"I wish there were more like you.