I think, if you let me prescribe for you, I can see after you as well as a doctor,' Althea assured her.

'I'm used to taking care of people who are ill.

The friend I've just been staying with in Venice had influenza very badly while I was with her.' She rather hoped, after the thermometer was removed, that the young lady would ask her some question about Venice and her present destination; but, though so amiable and so grateful, she did not seem to feel any curiosity about the good Samaritan who thus succoured her.
Althea found her patient less feverish next morning when she went in early to see her, and though she said that her body felt as though it were being beaten with red-hot hammers, she smiled in saying it, and Althea then, administering her dose, asked her what her name might be.
It was Helen Buchanan, she learned.
'And mine is Althea Jakes.

You are English, aren't you ?' 'Oh no, I'm Scotch,' said Miss Buchanan.
'And I am American.

Do you know any Americans ?' 'Oh yes, quite a lot.