He smiled at Ruth as she turned away from the bed, smiled with both his mouth and eyes; and she knew that here would be a man of heart as well as of science.

She went out into the hall, where she met the Jedsons in their kimonos.
"What has happened ?" asked Sister Prudence.

"We've heard coming and going." "Mr.Taber is very ill." "Oh." Prudence shrugged.

"Well, what can you expect, guzzling poison like that?
Are you returning with us to Hong-Kong in the morning ?" "No.

I am going to help take care of him," said Ruth, quite ordinarily, as though taking care of unknown derelicts was an ordinary event in her life.
"What ?--help take care of him?
Why, you can't do that, Miss Enschede!" was the protest.
"Why can't I ?" "You will be compromised.