" "Come this way.

" And the mother, accompanied by the doctor, went into the drawing room to Kitty.

Wasted and flushed, with a peculiar glitter in her eyes, left there by the agony of shame she had been put through, Kitty stood in the middle of the room.

When the doctor came in she flushed crimson, and her eyes filled with tears.

All her illness and treatment struck her as a thing so stupid, ludicrous even! Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase.