She and her family are grateful; the air of Cairnhope has a magic effect on people who live in smoke, and Martha and Jael let me send them out an invalid now and then to be reinvigorated.

I took this young man there, not knowing who he was.

Go to him, if you like.

But, frankly, as his physician, I would rather you did not.

Never do a wise thing by halves.