he turned to the doctor.

"Pardon my care, but I must make sure that Ruth has told her. Just step
into the sitting-room a second," and the precautious husband went forward
to his wife's bedroom, leaving the door open.

Standing there in the hallway, Kemp could plainly hear the following words:
--

"And being interested in nervous diseases," the peculiarly low voice was
saying, "he told Father he would call and see you, --out of professional
curiosity, you know; besides we should not like you to be often taken as
you were last night, should we?"

"People with plenty of time on their hands," soliloquized the doctor,
looking at his watch in the hallway.

"What is his name, did you say?"

"Dr. Herbert Kemp."

"What! Don't you know that Dr. Kemp is one of the first physicians in the
city? Every one knows he has no time for curiosity. Nervous diseases are
his specialty; and do you think he would come without--"

"Being asked?" interrupted a pleasant voice; the doctor had remembered the
flight of time, and walked in unannounced.

"Keep your seat," he continued, as Mrs. Levice started up, the excited
blood springing to her cheeks.