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Into why she waited, and why she wouldn't wait any longer, chance put most of the simple plot of the commonplace modern drama, "Love Deferred." It is so commonplace that it is doubtful if any other drama can so stretch the nerves or can so draw from them a thin, high note of fine pain. We will pretend that John was a doctor. No, that's too professional. He was a civil engineer.
Many curious incidents have marked the speech-making annals of the House of Commons, but it is doubtful whether it has ever been the lot of a member to hear his own voice raised for the first time on a subject of vital interest to his party, having been denied all initial assistance of minor questions asked or unimportant amendments made.
It is doubtful if they heard what he said; and they, too, were on a knoll and likely out of the reach of the water. But the three in the automobile saw the whole family turn and run for the higher ground behind their house. They understood the peril which menaced the whole valley.
Married ladies were addressed at this time as "Madam," unmarried ladies as "Mistress"; but the marriage of the clergy was still unsanctioned by law, for Elizabeth had refused to revive the statute of Edward by which it was allowed, and the position of a priest's wife was legally a very doubtful one. When Mrs.
Now let's have a trot." "There is one thing more I ought to speak about though, Connie. It is not your moral nature alone you ought to cultivate. You ought to make yourself as worth God's making as you possibly can. Now I am a little doubtful whether you keep up your studies at all." She shrugged her pretty shoulders playfully, looking up in my face again. "I don't like dry things, papa."
And the delight that Pawson and Gadgem took in it all! assorting, verifying, checking off slapping each other's backs in glee when some doubtful find was made certain, and growing even more excited on the days when Harry and Kate would drive or ride in from Moorlands almost every day of late tie the horse and carry-all, or both saddle-horses, to St.
Pomeroy was compelled to admit that Frank was now out of employment, and it was doubtful if he would be able to keep up the payment. Tom Pinkerton managed to learn that Grace was now without a home, and mentioned it to his father. "Won't she have to go to the poorhouse now, father?" he asked eagerly. "Yes," said Deacon Pinkerton. "There is no other place for her that I can see."
Miller looked doubtful; then he put his great fingers to his lips by way of experiment, and let them fall unmistakably in the widow's direction. Mrs. Pullen looked down and nearly blushed. The carpenter and his wife eyed each other in indignant consternation. "That's easy enough," said the dealer, and repeated the offense. Mrs.
That is what makes me doubtful that he can have taken it. He said so distinctly that it was on his desk and that I was to take it across to you." Her eyes held a troubled look. Hugh was so hopelessly untidy with his papers that it was just possible the precious MS had fallen into the waste-paper basket and been reduced to smoke by Lizzie. Still it seemed unwise to meet trouble half-way.
Leaving all these doubtful points, which will have to be cleared up by further scientific investigation, the high degree of variability requires further discussion. It may be considered from three different points of view according to the limit of the deviation from the average, to the dependency on external conditions and to periodicity. It seems best to take up the last two points first.
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