"He does not think her seriously ill?"
"Not at present; she needs care, he says; he was very kind, and he said he would call again, and see how his medicines worked."
"Only care?--he did not recommend change of air?--he did not say this smoky town was doing her any harm, did he, Margaret?"
"No! not a word," she replied, gravely. "He was anxious, I think."
"Doctors have that anxious manner; its professional," said he.
Margaret saw, in her father's nervous ways, that the first impression of possible danger was made upon his mind, in spite of all his making light of what she told him. He could not forget the subject,--could not pass from it to other things; he kept recurring to it through the evening, with an unwillingness to receive even the slightest unfavourable idea, which made Margaret inexpressibly sad.

'He does not think her seriously ill?' asked her father.
'Not at present; she needs care, he says; he was very kind, and said he would call again.'
'He did not recommend change of air? - he did not say this smoky town was doing her any harm, did he, Margaret?'
'Not a word,' she replied, gravely. 'He was anxious, I think.'
'Doctors have that anxious manner; it's professional.'
Margaret saw that the first impression of possible danger was made upon his mind, in spite of his making light of what she told him. He kept recurring to the subject through the evening, with an unwillingness to receive even the slightest unfavourable idea, which made Margaret inexpressibly sad.
