"You're going to be a good little girl, and keep very quiet, and take all your medicine—"

"I—I'm just goin' to be as good as—as snow-drops."

"Why snowdrops?"

She drew her brows together in thought. "I don't know: snowdrops are just good through and through."

He smiled.

"I do think you're such a nice doctor," Sheila Pat said earnestly.

When Nell crept in a few minutes later, she was fast asleep. When she woke, she took her medicine without a murmur.

"Is Denis home, Nell?"

"I think he's just come in. Yes, here he is."

He entered with a beautiful bunch of parma violets.