I question if she's the kind that could care for anyone.

It's plain by her thrawn look when you speak to her about her mother that she has no affection even for her.

However, there she was, prepared to leave Ballingall to his fate if I did not grant her request, and I had to yield to her." "You promised ?" "I did, sore against the grain, but I accept the responsibility.

You are pained, but you don't know what a good nurse means to a doctor." "Well ?" "Well, he died after all, and the straiking is going on now.

You saw her go in." "I think you could have been excused for breaking your word and turning her out." "To tell the truth," said the doctor, "I had the same idea when I saw her enter, and I tried to shoo her to the door, but she cried, 'You promised, you _can't_ break a promise!' and the morbid brat that she is looked so horrified at the very notion of anybody's breaking a promise that I slunk away as if she had right on her side." "No wonder the little monster is unpopular," was McLean's comment.