"Deputy-Commissioner of—I always forget the name of the place."
"Never mind. Boggley Wallah will do equally well for me. And why do they call him Sahib? I thought everybody was a Sahib?"
"His family call him that for a joke, and it has stuck somehow. It was because he was very young when he got some appointment or other."
"He looks a mere boy now."
"I think he is thirty-three."
"I wish you would not tell him that I am a medical student; I don't feel that I have done credit to my cloth. I should not like him to think medical women were muffs."
"Oh, Mona, I do wish you would not be a medical woman, as you call it. Why don't you marry?"
"'Nobody axed me, sir, she said.' At least nobody that I call anybody."
"If you would go out to India, somebody would ask you every week of your life."
"Thanks. Even that is not absolutely my ideal of blessedness."