“And if she won’t take ‘No’ for an answer?”
“You don’t really think it will come to that?” He was really considerably alarmed.
Helen was delighted. “I think it may.”
“Good heavens!”
“I had no idea, Latham,” joined in Bransby, playing up to Helen (he always did play up to Helen), “that you were so attractive to the opposite sex.”
Latham groaned.
“Oh!” Helen said with almost judicial gravity, “I don’t know that it is entirely due to Dr. Latham’s charm that the present crisis has come about. I think Angela’s sense of duty is equally to blame.”
“Mrs. Hilary’s sense of duty!” Latham muttered.
“Really?” quizzed Bransby.
“Yes, Daddy, she feels that bachelorhood is an unfit state for a physician; and because she has a high regard for Dr. Latham she has nobly resolved to cure him of it.”