The doctor came down late to dinner. “You got Mrs. Dorlan's message did you?”
“Yes, I'll go up there right after dinner.” He looked at his wife with peculiar admiration.
“How did you know what was wanted with me out in the country?” he asked.
With a little pardonable pride she replied: “Oh, I just felt it. Women have ways of understanding each other that men never attain to. Is it a boy or a girl added to the world today?”
“Neither,” said the doctor placidly, helping himself to a roll.
Chagrin overspread her face. “Well,” she said with an embarrassed smile, “I erred on mercy's side, and it might have happened in just that way, John, and you know it.”
The doctor laughed. “There was mighty little the matter out there—they didn't need a doctor.”
“Are they good pay?”
“Good as old wheat.”
“Then there are compensations.”