"Your work!" said Madge.
"Yes."
"Esterbrooke!"
"Yes, if they want me."
"You are never going back to that place!" exclaimed Madge energetically. "Never! not with my good leave. Bury yourself in that wild country, and kill yourself with hard work! Not if I know it."
"If that is the work given me," said Lois, in the same calm voice.
"They want somebody there, badly; and I have made a beginning."
"A nice beginning!—almost killed yourself. Now, Lois, don't think about anything! Do you know, Mrs. Wishart says you are the handsomest girl she ever saw!"
"That's a mistake. I know several much handsomer."
"She tried to make Mr. Dillwyn say so too; and he wouldn't."
"Naturally."