"About two weeks—she began, I think, soon after you left."
"And the doctor has been coming oftener?"
"Yes."
"Does the doctor come usually when Joy is here, or when Edna is?"
"Almost always when it's Edna."
"How does Doctor Copin know when she is here?"
"That's a mystery. I've wondered myself about it, but I don't know."
"Leah," I said, after thinking a while, "do you think you can trust me, whatever you should happen to notice that seems, let us say, a bit too much like what the doctor might be imagined as doing?"
"You mean?" She drew a quick breath. "Oh, that? Why should you suggest it? Don't ask me to, please!"
"It would be better than permitting you to be driven away, wouldn't it?" I insisted.