He's just slowly and quietly nosing his way into her school, because it's her life.

And a mighty shrewd way of going about it.

You don't need any help from me, my friend; all you need is to be let alone." In talks at home with Deborah, and in what he himself observed at school, Roger began to get inklings of "A.

Baird's long waiting game." He found that several months before Allan had offered to start a free clinic for mothers and children in connection with the school, and that he alone had put it through, with only the most reluctant aid and gratitude from Deborah--as though she dreaded something.

Baird took countless hours from his busy uptown practice; he hurt himself more than once, in fact, by neglecting rich patients to do this work.