"Yes," he said; "the doctor's been with me today and wasted an hour of my time.

I feel that some one of our friends must have sent him: my health's so precious, it seems.

" "No; what did he say?" She questioned him about his health and what he had been doing, and tried to persuade him to take a rest and come out to her.

All this she said brightly, rapidly, and with a peculiar brilliance in her eyes.