"You can. Do you want a visiting surgeon?"

"Of course I do. Will you - "

"Why, Mrs. Lessing," said he, stopping short just below her on
the steep path and looking up into her face with eyes of eager
pleasure, "that's been one of my dreams so long I can't
remember when I began to think about it. But I haven't been
able to finance it yet, nor to find time to get anybody else
to do it. If you'll provide the place I'll do everything I
can to make it a success. There are no less than four
children this minute I'm longing to get into such a home.
We'll go into partnership if you'll take me. I why - you see,
I can't even talk straight about it! And you - I thought you
were a society woman!"

"I am a society woman, I suppose," she answered laughing,
"though our ideas might differ as to what that term stands
for. But why should that prevent my caring for this lovely
plan?"

"Evidently it doesn't. How many sides have you anyhow? I've
found out two new ones to-day. Girl - and patron saint - "

"Ah, don't make fun of me. I'm no girl and very far from any
kind of saint. Please help me down this four-foot drop as if
I were a very, very old lady, for my head is dizzy with joy
that I've found somebody to care for my schemes."