“That’s Miss Franklin.”
“Oh! I didn’t know she was so young. Does she stay here as late as this?”
“She lives here.”
“Lives here—with your wife away?”
Mrs. Hamilton was moving toward the door.
“Good night, doctor!” she said, and there was a decided coolness in her voice.
VI
Peculiarly disturbed, Andrew returned to his office, to find Miss Franklin there, waiting for him. He was about to reprove her sharply for her outrageous intrusion, but she spoke first.
“Who was that?”
“A patient; and you must never, under any circumstances, come into this room when I have a patient here.”