"There is nothing, absolutely nothing, the matter, except the doctor. He is all broken up over the accident, and says I must lie here or some
where for two or three days to cure a wrench in my back which I didn't have."
Katrine laughed as she turned to go.
"I was intending to study some," she said, looking down at her music. "Will it annoy you?"
A quick, amused smile came to his face at the question, and he looked up with eyes full of laughter as he answered:
"Certainly, I am naturally unappreciative of music."
"I didn't mean that," Katrine explained, smiling back at him as she went along the corridor.
"Miss Dulany!" he called.
She turned toward him, her face waiting and expectant.
"As the German girl said in Rudder Grange, 'It is very loneful here.'"