"I mean to be a doctor."
"A doctor!" Had Fetzer announced her intention of being an aviator, he would have been no more surprised. "Why a doctor?"
"My father meant to educate me to be a doctor as he was." Then Ellen leaned forward, her lips trembling. She could keep her secret no longer—her heart seemed to burst with it. "Don't you remember me at all?"
Stephen looked curiously into Ellen's face and thought of the hundreds of patients in hospital and office. But even though there had been hundreds he seldom forgot the eyes which he treated—certainly not such eyes as these!
"Were you ever a patient of mine?"
Ellen shook her head; he could see her lips tremble. She seemed to be unhappy because he did not remember her! What an extraordinary experience! He had never been more puzzled or more charmed.
"Ellen Lewis is your name, Fetzer said. Is that right?"
"Ellen Levis is my name. They call me Lewis when they can't say 'v.'"
Still he stared without comprehension. Ellen grew pale with distress. Was she the victim of an hallucination?
"Don't you remember now?"