“That’s why I didn’t. I wouldn’t have told you now, only I knew you’d find it out. I’m expecting him every minute.”
“He is coming here.” The Doctor rose to his feet in his excitement.
“Yes. I got a cable from him. It came over a week ago. It most scared me to death when I got it. It’s the first one I ever saw.”
“He is coming?”
“To-day, the cable said.”
“You brought one of the busiest men in Europe away from his work for me. You had no right to do it.”
“Perhaps not.” She stood there, afraid of him, but obstinately glad of the thing she had done. “All I know is mindin’ my own business, and it’s my business to take care of you the best I can. There—there ain’t nobody else to do it now. It’s only what she’d have done herself if she’d been here.”
It was the first time since Lola had left them that she had spoken her name or made any allusion to her, and he shrank away from it now pitifully.
“Please!” He turned away from her, seating himself heavily in his chair.
“It’s only what Miss Lola would have done,” she continued firmly.