"Oh yes; it is just the reaction, nothing but what'll soon pass."
"You didn't have the relief you ought to have had; you worked like two women."
He paused, and his gaze dwelt on her questioningly. She read the question with such clearness that, when he spoke, the words seemed but an echo of the pause.
"How did you know so much?" he asked.
"After I lost my father I was a nurse in the Yaughton Hospital for some years."
The answer was direct, but it was brief. Half a dozen queries sprang to his lips, and were in turn repressed. Her past was her own; he confined his inquiries to her future.
"And what do you mean to do now?"
"I'm going to London."
"Do you expect to meet with any difficulties in the way of taking up nursing again?"
"I think you know that there were difficulties in the way."