_The_ word wasn't spoken, but all else was done.

She gave her heart, doctor, not unasked, and now it's sent back to her, and she's blighted, that's the only word for it." "I should think so," said the doctor, who was far too professional to smile.

"A heart returned like that is always a little difficult to dispose of.

Might I ask who--but perhaps you'd rather not tell me ?" "No, Doctor Morris, I'd rather tell you; I've sent for you to tell you, and it isn't so much that I blame him, poor young man, for it was all managed between his mother and Beatrice, all, from the very first, and it's my firm belief that he had neither part nor parcel in it.

I did what I could, as in duty bound, to give him his chances, but those designers were too many for me." "You don't mean," said the doctor--he really did not concern himself much about Northbury gossip, and no rumors of Matty's flirtations had reached him--"You don't mean Captain Bertram?
Why, I have just heard he is engaged to Beatrice.