'How are you for a business woman?'
'Nobody has ever found out. Of course I consider myself capable of anything. But then business never does come into my hands, you know.'
'This business does.'
'Does it? the business of caring for other people?—Last summer Dr. Maryland read a terrible text about the "tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter." It haunted me for a while. But I could do nothing. No,—one must have more right of way than I have—yet.'
'I do not mean the business simply of caring for other people. I mean the whole course of action, beginning from those first words you read.'
'You know,' she said quietly, 'I have never tried.'
'Will you study the lesson I have set you?'
'The one you have been learning?'
'Yes. The one contained in these verses you have read. Shall I do harm if I mark this book?'
'No.'—The word came quick, under breath.