Dan shuddered—the laugh was all out of him now. "I have certainly been on the table this afternoon," he said. "I need to talk it out with someone. That's what I came to you for."
"Perhaps you had better tell me the particulars," said Harry, quietly.
So Dan told him, and when he had finished they had both grown very serious.
"I was afraid of this, Dan," said Harry. "You'll need to be very careful—very careful."
The other started to speak, but the doctor checked him.
"I know. I know how you feel. What you say about the system and all that is all too true, and you haven't seen the worst of it yet, by a good deal."
"Do you mean to tell me that Miss Farwell will be made to suffer for her interest in that poor girl?" demanded Dan warmly.
"If Miss Farwell continues to live with Grace Conner at Mrs. Mulhall's, there is not a respectable home in this town that will receive her," answered the doctor bluntly.
"My God! are the people blind? Can't the church see what a beautiful—what a Christ-like thing she is doing?"
"You know Grace Conner's history," replied Harry, coolly. "What reason is there to think it will be different in Miss Farwell's case, so far as the attitude of the community goes?"