"The nurse is here," she said.
"Oh, all right!" exclaimed Bulson. "Send her up."
"The new nurse," said Mark Horton wearily. "They simply bother me. Not one of them does as well as did Gertrude."
Presently a middle-aged woman came in, dressed in the outfit of a trained nurse. She bowed to both men.
"You are the nurse Dr. Barcomb said he would send?" said Homer Bulson, as he eyed her sharply.
"Yes, sir."
"What is your name, please?"
"Mrs. Mary Conroy."
"As the doctor sent you, I suppose it is all right. You have had sufficient experience?"
"Plenty, sir; plenty! What is the matter with the gentleman?"