Green Doors

By Ethel Cook Eliot
Ariel Dances Green Doors
ETHEL COOK ELIOT
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY Boston 1933
Copyright, 1933 , BY ETHEL COOK ELIOT All rights reserved
Published February, 1933 Reprinted February, 1933 (twice) Reprinted April, 1933 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DEDICATED TO MY FATHER
“Hello! What’s up with you?”
Doctor Lewis Pryne was obviously surprised at the intrusion of a mere friend on office hours. “How did you persuade Miss Frazier to bring you in? You aren’t—or are you—looking for a doctor?”
Dick Wilder’s smile was tinged with awed diffidence.
“No, I’m not wanting treatment myself,” he said. “All the same, I did get a regulation appointment from your secretary via the telephone, and I’ve been out there in your reception office meekly waiting my turn for hours. But first I have a message for you, from Cynthia. They want you for the week-end in Meadowbrook. Harry’s counting on golf with you, and the children—”
Lewis broke in dryly. “Sorry, Dick, but I’m most frightfully busy just now. If you insist on staying to chat, I’ll send you a bill—regulation fee for a first appointment. But if you vanish at once, I’ll let you off. Give my fondest love to Cynthia, tell her I’ll call her up; thanks, good-by.”