"No you could not," said the doctor. "You are twice as judicious as Miss Yates now; though she is twice as old as you. You do the right thing in the right place always."
"I wish you would do this thing for me, nevertheless, Dr.
Sandford. I wish it very much."
"What thing?"
"Let me know the various states of the patients, and their prospect of recovery."
"Most of them have a very fair prospect of recovery," said the doctor.
"Will you do it for me, Dr. Sandford? - I ask it as a great favour."
"Gary's all right," he said, with a full look at me.
"Yes, I know; but I would like to know how it is with the others. I could better tell how to minister to them, and what to do."
"The thing to be done would not vary at all with your increased knowledge, Daisy."
"Not the things in your line, I know; but the things in mine."