But you can tell him I am--if you think so.

That will do him no great harm--will it ?" "Not an atom to him; but it will subject me to a pinch for stale news.
There, give me my patient's picture, and let me go." She kissed the little picture half-furtively, and gave it him, and let him go; only, as he went out at the door, she murmured, "Come often." Now, when this artful doctor got outside the door, his face became grave all of a sudden, for he had seen enough to give him a degree of anxiety he had not betrayed to his interesting patient herself.
"Well, doctor ?" said Mr.Carden, affecting more cheerfulness than he felt.

"Nothing there beyond your skill, I suppose ?" "Her health is declining rapidly.

Pale, hollow-eyed, listless, languid--not the same girl." "Is it bodily do you think, or only mental ?" "Mental as to its cause; but bodily in the result.

The two things are connected in all of us, and very closely in Miss Carden.