"They are true!" said the doctor.
"Ah, but, don't you know that extremes meet?"
"What extremes?"
"All extremes, perhaps. I have been working worsted; for a day or two, just because I had so much to think of."
"They have been exciting days," said the doctor slowly, "to a sick man who could do nothing."
"Why not to a woman, for the same reason?"
"Have they tried you very much, Daisy?"
"Why, she was turning faint here a little while ago," broke in Mrs. Sandford, "because I was giving an account of some wounded soldiers I had read about in the papers; and the major and I persuaded her to go out and take a walk to recover herself."
"The major? - that is indefinite, though you use the definite article. What major?"
"Oh, we have a number of military friends. They have kept us alive since you have been shut up. What is this one, Daisy? He is a very good one. Major Fairbairn."