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"I said to her, says I," she had a trick of mimicry and dropped easily into the southern English accent, "'Miss Millit, are you aware that the gentleman who lives opposite to me has been, to my knowledge, consistently drunk for two months ever since he came to live at Kroomans? 'Does he annoy you? says she. 'Drunken people always annoy me, says I. 'Mr.
"Really, the flat is so wonderful and so cheap that one cannot afford to get out you don't know how grateful I am to you, doctor, for having got diggings here at all Miss Millit isn't keen on single young ladies." She sniffed and laughed. "Why do you laugh?" he asked. "I was thinking how queerly you and I met." The circumstances of their meeting had indeed been curious.
"Don't be unkind to the profession," he laughed, "and don't be sarcastic, to one so young. By the way, I have never asked you did you get your flat changed?" She shook her head and frowned. "Miss Millit says she cannot move me." "Abominable," he said, and was annoyed. "Did you tell her about Beale?" She nodded vigorously.
"I should never have known there was a vacancy here but for you. I should not have been admitted by the proper Miss Millit but for the terror of your name." She dropped her little hand lightly on his shoulder. It was a gesture of good-comradeship. She half-turned to go when an angry exclamation held her. "What is it? Oh, I see No. 4!"
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