"I will try,"—she said gravely.
The doctor wondered whether she had laid up against him any of his former conversation.
"What do you think," he said with a kind of gentle insinuation,—"of that argument I ventured to advance the other day, on the matter we were speaking of?"
"I don't like to think of it at all, Dr. Harrison."
"May I know why not?"
"Because I know it is false, and yet I cannot make you see it."
"Can you make yourself see it?"
"I don't need to take any pains for that. I see it very well."
"Perhaps you will find the way to make me see it," said the doctor pleasantly.
"That would be easy," said Faith, "if—"