If they saw her by any chance they might ask kind interested questions about the pretty creature they had liked.

They might inquire as to symptoms, they might ask where she was to be taken to be nursed.

Dowie knew that after she had seen Robin herself she could provide suitable symptoms and she knew, as she knew how to breathe and walk, exactly the respectful voice and manner in which she could make her replies and how natural she could cause it to appear that she had not yet been told their destination--her grace being still undecided.

Dowie's decent intelligence knew the methods of her class and their value when perfectly applied.

A nurse or a young lady's maid knew only what she was told and did not ask questions.
But what she thought of most anxiously was Robin herself.