She caught her breath.
"If I were to take the responsibility of recommending you, it's probable she'd engage you; I think you'd suit her, but——Well, it's rather a large order!"
"Oh, you should never be sorry!" she cried. "You shall never be sorry for trusting me, if you will!"
"You see, it's not easy. It's not usual to go engaging a lady one meets for the first time."
"Why, you wouldn't meet anybody else oftener," she pleaded eagerly; "if you advertised, you'd take the woman after the one interview. You wouldn't exchange a lot of visits and get friendly before you engaged her."
He pulled at his moustache again.
"But of course she wouldn't—wouldn't be starving," she added; "she wouldn't have fainted in your room. It'd be no more judicious, but it would be more conventional."
"You argue neatly," he said with a smile.
The smile encouraged her. She smiled response. He could not smile if he were going to refuse her, she felt.
"Dr. Kincaid——"