Drane and her
daughter. Having but little time, he went straight to the point, and
surprised Miriam and Ralph as much as if he had proposed to them to open
a summer hotel. But, without regard to the impression he had made, he
boldly proceeded in the statement of his case.
"You couldn't find pleasanter ladies than Mrs. Drane and her daughter,"
he said. "The latter is copying some manuscript for me, which she could
do just as well here as at my house--"
"Are you talking about the two ladies who were here yesterday afternoon?"
interrupted Miriam.
"Here, yesterday afternoon!" cried the doctor, and now it was his turn to
be surprised.
When he had heard the story of the trespass on private grounds, the
doctor laughed heartily.
"Well," said he, "Mistress Fate has been ahead of me. The good lady is in
the habit of doing that sort of thing. And now that you know the parties
in question, what have you to say?"
Miriam's blood began to glow a little, and as she gazed out of the open
door without looking at anything, her eyes grew very bright.
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