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"Have you sent for her husband?" he inquired, returning to himself. "Yes; Mr. Libby telegraphed the evening we saw you." "That's good," said Dr. Mulbridge, with comfortable approval; and he rose to go away. Grace impulsively detained him. "I won't ask you whether you consider Mrs. Maynard's case a serious one, if you object to my doing so."
A light of humorous irony glimmered in Dr. Mulbridge's eye. "I must submit to your condemnation." "Oh, it isn't a personal condemnation!" she retorted. "I have no doubt that personally you are not responsible. We can lay aside our distinctions as allopathist and homoeopathist, and you can advise with me" "It's quite impossible," said Dr. Mulbridge.
There was such a tone of dismissal in his words that she rose, and he promptly followed her example. She stood hesitating a moment. Then, "I don't know whether you understood that I wish merely to consult with you," she said; "that I don't wish to relinquish the case to you" "Relinquish the case consult" Dr. Mulbridge stared at her. "No, I don't understand.
"Are you going to have anything more to eat?" she asked, with a housekeeper's latent impatience to get her table cleared away. "Yes," said Dr. Mulbridge; "I have n't finished yet. And I'm in no hurry this morning. Sit still, mother; I want you to hear something more about my lady friends at Jocelyn's. Dr. Breen's mother and Miss Gleason don't feel alike about her.
"Well, I never knew a Mulbridge yet 't objected to prop'ty, especially, other folks's." "Barlow he's tellin' round that she 's very fine appearin'." He handed the corn-ball to Widow Seth Wray's boy, who went noiselessly out on his bare feet. Cap'n Billy drew several long breaths.
Mulbridge, however, and ask him to see her in consultation with me. That is all," she ended rather haughtily, as if she had been dramatizing the fact to Dr. Mulbridge in her own mind. "I should think that would be the right thing," said Libby limply, with uncalled-for approval; but he left this dangerous ground abruptly. "As you say, character goes for a great deal in these things. I've seen Mrs.
She waited to be asked why, and then she added, "I think she's acting in consultation with Dr. Mulbridge. He may have a certain influence over her, I think he has; but I know they are acting in unison." Mrs. Merritt flung her grass-straw away. "Perhaps it is to be Dr. Mulbridge, after all, and not Mr. Libby." "I have thought of that," Miss Gleason assented candidly. "Yes, I have thought of that.
You need n't be afraid." "I'm not afraid. I should not care if it were rough! I should not care if it stormed! I hope it I will ask mother to stay with Mrs. Maynard." Mrs. Breen had not been pleased to have her daughter in charge of Mrs. Maynard's case, but she had not liked her giving it up. She had said more than once that she had no faith in Dr. Mulbridge.
There was that, in fact, in the awe of the time and an involuntary disoccupation of hers that threw them together even more constantly than before. Dr. Mulbridge remained with his patient well into the forenoon; in the afternoon he came again, and that night he did not go away. He superseded Grace as a nurse no less completely than he had displaced her as a physician.
In the morning Dr. Mulbridge drove back to Corbitant, and in the evening Libby came over from New Leyden with Maynard, in a hired wagon. He was a day later than his wife had computed, but as she appeared to have reflected, she had left the intervening Sunday out of her calculation; this was one of the few things she taxed herself to say.
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