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Updated: May 27, 2025
"After this," she said to herself, "I will get somebody else to do my concocting," and she carefully replaced her physician's medicines on the shelves. It was three days later when Miss Panney was told that Dr. Tolbridge was in the parlor and wished to see her. "Well," said the old lady, as she entered the parlor, "I supposed that after your last call here, you would not come again."
"'Pon my word," ejaculated Phoebe, "it's a long time since that bell's been rung," and getting down a plate of hotter biscuit, with which she had been offering temptations, she left the room. Presently she returned, ushering in Dr. Tolbridge.
When the two girls joined the gentlemen on the porch, which they did with much promptness, having delegated the greater part of their household duties to Mike, who could take a hand at almost any kind of work, Dr. Tolbridge announced that he must proceed to visit his patient. "Are you coming back this way, doctor?" asked Dora.
"For a temporary country residence, I suppose you could not have found a better spot, though it must be a long walk for your daughter when she goes to submit her work to Dr. Tolbridge." "That has not yet been necessary," said Mrs. Drane; "Mr. Haverley is very kind " At this point Miss Panney rose.
"Is there any chance of that?" eagerly asked the old lady. "I fear there is," was the answer. Miss Panney sprang to her feet, her eyes flashing. "Now look here, Dr. Tolbridge," she said, "don't tell me that that woman is going to leave you because she wants higher wages and you will not pay them. I beg you to remember that I got you that woman.
I only told you that to show you how you can always expect her to turn up unexpected." "Mrs. Brinkly spoke of Miss Panney," said Cicely; "she said that she was the first one to come and see her about rooms for us." "That was certainly very kind," said Mrs. Drane, "considering that she does not know us at all, except through Dr. Tolbridge. I remember his speaking of her."
When a rejected proposition is laid before them a second time, the disposition to resent has lost its force, and they are as likely to accept it as not." "You are right," said Mrs. Tolbridge, "for I have tried that plan with you." The doctor looked at her and laughed. "It is astonishing," he exclaimed, "what coincidences we meet with in this world," and with that he left the room.
"Was not this the very woman you were looking for? Why didn't you take her?" "Take her!" repeated Mrs. Tolbridge, with some irritation. "What could I do with a woman like that? She would want enormous wages. She would have to have kitchen maids, and I know not whom, besides, to wait on her; and as for our plain style of living, she could not be expected to stand that.
"It couldn't be better than that," she muttered over and over again as she busied herself about the Tolbridge dinner, and she even repeated the expression two or three times after she went to bed.
When Miss Panney reached home after her abrupt parting from Dora Bannister, she took a dose of the last medicine that Dr. Tolbridge had prescribed for her. It was against her rules to use internal medicines, but she made exceptions on important occasions, and as this was a remedy for the effects of anger, she had taken it before and she took it now.
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