"
"That will be wonderfully good of you," and the guest looked after her
host, dubiously, as he went out.
"Does one have to do everything he says, in these parts?" she inquired,
glancing from Mrs. Burns to Miss Mathewson, both of whom were smiling.
Her own expression was an odd mixture of interest and rebellion.
Miss Mathewson spoke first. "I have been his surgical assistant for more
than nine years," said she. "When I have ventured to depart from the line
he laid out for me I have--been very sorry, afterward."
"Did you ever venture to depart very far?"
"Do I look so meek?"
"You don't look meek at all, but you do look--conscientious." Miss Ruston
gave her a daring look.
Amy spoke with more spirit than the others had expected. "If I were not
conscientious I couldn't work for Dr. Burns."
"He doesn't look conscientious, to me," declared Miss Ruston. "He looks
adventurous, audacious, unexpected."
"Perhaps he is. But he doesn't expect his assistant nurse to be
adventurous, audacious, or unexpected!"
"Good for you!" Miss Ruston was laughing, and looking with newly roused
interest at this young woman, whom she had perhaps taken to be of a
more commonplace type than her words now indicated. "As for my friend,
Mrs. Burns--he is her husband, and she must have known what he was like,
since I, in one short hour, have already discovered two or three of his
characteristics! Well, here's hoping he's on my side, when he comes back.
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