He melted before her appeal.
“Oh, well,” he said, “I’ll have to reprimand him, but, as long as you ask it, I’ll not discharge him.”
“Oh, that’s a good doctor!” she laughed. He patted her cheek, and she turned to Bart in triumph.
“Now,” she said, “you must explain how you happen to be here, sir.”
“I left town for a walk, and just wandered along here; that’s all.”
“Well, wasn’t that odd! And I’m so glad to see you! You had to leave Charlottesville in such a hurry.”
“That’s right,” he agreed. “I left much before I was ready to do so.”
“We are going to stay here for several weeks, perhaps. Now, if Inza and Winnie were here, how jolly it would be!”
The man had turned from them to the lodge, the doors of which he was closing and locking.