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Miss Wuster has just been reading me the account of young Dillingham's trial. Perhaps you have been following it?" "Yes," said Miss Lady without looking up. "It is a matter of especial interest to me," continued the Doctor; "especial regret I should say.
Sequin," he said with the polite formality that was habitual to him. "It seems that she is going to honor me with a visit." "Mrs. Sequin?" Miss Lady wheeled so suddenly that she overturned the vase in which she was arranging the flowers. "Now see what I've done! I'll fix it, Miss Wuster; don't bother." It apparently required little self-control for the trained nurse to refrain from bothering.
Young Dillingham is engaged to be married to the daughter of my cousin whom I expect to-day, and the other young man involved, Donald Morley, is Mrs. Sequin's brother." "Well for the life of me," said Miss Wuster, counting stitches between her sentences, "I can't see how they got Mr. Dillingham off, unless it was the way Mr. Gooch said." "Who is Mr. Gooch?" asked Miss Lady of the Doctor.
It makes me awfully lonesome when I think of your leaving. Down here you have just belonged to Miss Wuster and me, and once you get back to town you will be the famous Doctor Queerington again and belong to everybody. I shan't dare write to you for fear I spell a word wrong."
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