"Adler, you can go."
Adler saluted and withdrew.
"Whom are your letters from?" Bennett demanded by way of a beginning.
Lloyd replaced the hairpin in her hair, answering:
"From Dr. Street, from Louise Douglass, and from—Mr. Campbell."
"Hum! well, what do they say? Dr. Street and—Louise Douglass?"
"Dr. Street asks me to take a very important surgical case as soon as I get through here, 'one of the most important and delicate, as well as one of the most interesting, operations in his professional experience.' Those are his words. Louise writes four pages, but she says nothing; just chatters."
"And Campbell?" Bennett indicated with his chin the third rather voluminous letter at Lloyd's elbow. "He seems to have written rather more than four pages. What does he say? Does he 'chatter' too?"
Lloyd smoothed back her hair from one temple.
"H'm—no. He says—something. But never mind what he says. Ward, I must be going back to the City. You don't need a nurse any more."