Agnes looked up in grateful surprise, but Miss Danton was gone.

She ran down stairs and stood looking out of the drawing-room window, at the sunlit, wintry landscape.
So Doctor Frank was a hero after all, and not a villain.

He had nothing to do with this pale little girl's trouble.

He was only her best friend and wanted to hide it.
"People generally like their good deeds to be known," mused Miss Danton.
"They want their right hand to see all that their left hand gives.

Is Doctor Frank a little better than the rest of mankind?
I know he attends the sick poor of St.Croix for nothing, and I know he is very pleasant, and a gentleman.