So why shouldn't I, being quite poor, take advantage of your ignorance?
The most intelligent surgeon in New York couldn't do any more than to snip it off, now could he?
And he wouldn't be one-tenth as ignorant as you are about prices." She was so gay and naive about it that he curbed his amazement, and, to some extent, his embarrassment.
"I suppose that it is also ignorance on my part that supplies me with office hours in a public restaurant from one to three o'clock," he said, with a very unprofessional grin.
"What hospital do you work in ?" she demanded, in a business-like tone.
Humouring her, he mentioned one of the big hospitals in which he had served as an interne.
"That suits me," she said.

"Can you do it to-morrow ?" "For heaven's sake, madam, I--are you in earnest ?" "Absolutely.

I want to have it done right away.

You see, I do a good deal of dancing, and--now, listen!" She leaned farther across the table, a serious little line appearing between her brows.

"I want you to do it because I've always heard that you are one of the most earnest, capable and ambitious young men in the business.