"Oh, we will arrange it!" she reassured him. "There are plenty of ways.
I'll tell you"--bending forward again and gazing earnestly into eyes
from which something that had been looking out of them seemed to
have drawn back hastily--"you shall introduce me to her, and I will
bring him away up here for a visit. He ought to be in the country in
summer, and he will come with me, I know, and won't miss her after a
couple of days. I can get you a nurse cheap from some of the selectors,
and one more or less makes not the slightest difference in a house like
this; and I will take care of him for you until you come back next
voyage, or for just as long as you will trust him to me. So the
difficulty will solve itself without any fuss. Do you see?"

Guthrie Carey felt unable to reply. He could only murmur again and
again: "You are awfully good, Miss Urquhart. 'Pon my word, you are too
good altogether." Later, he declared more firmly that he could not
think of troubling her.

"Nonsense!" she returned lightly. "It is all settled."




CHAPTER III.



Decidedly he was a coward, with all his brawn and inches; for he dared
not protest straight-forwardly that all was not settled. He certainly
told himself that he did not know what to do, but he also told himself
that he would be a fool to do practically the same thing that he had