The fact that amazed him was not that she frequently landed before he
did, but that she landed at all!
As for Miss Lady herself, she was finding the Doctor's interest and
companionship a welcome solace in her loneliness. The well of his
knowledge seemed to her fathomless, and she never tired of hanging
over the brink and looking down, often seeing stars in the darkness
that she never saw in the day.
When this last lesson was finished, the Doctor closed the book
reluctantly:
"I have given you the merest outline for future work," he said. "The
rest remains with you. Have you decided yet what you are going to do?"
"No, I'll do whatever you tell me, Doctor. Only I do hope it won't be
to teach school,--the very thought of teaching makes me shrivel."
"It is not altogether beyond the range of possibility that you will
marry," said the Doctor, tracing parallelograms on the arm of the
chair. "Such things do happen, you know."
Miss Lady, sitting with her elbows on the table and her chin on her
palms, flashed a strange, questioning glance at him.
"Do you believe in love, Doctor?"
"Why, of course, you foolish girl, in all its manifestations, filial,
paternal, marital.
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