t know that that would be particularly cheerful for you you are not in consumption nor at hy si n of home all likely to be there is a little place not very far from nice that i think will suit you to perfection it ib bright without being glaring quiet without being dull there ie a nice colony of english and a very good english doctor i know him intimately he would look after you and see that yon had everything comfortable and that you were taken care of the place ia called at this point nurse gave vent to a of satisfaction i was hoping that yon would bay sir she in her bright and capable way ah it ib not the first patient of mine that you have taken to nurse not the first by a good many i think would suit mrs oe weu as any place i know and would be good for the baby then too it would enable that dusky lady in the next room to winter in europe i suppose you have no wish to get rid of your oh dear no i should be lost indeed without her i cried with quite a rush of energy he asked me a good many questions � questions about my husband about my life my father and mother it was as if he were trying to not my present state of health but my constitution � what one might call my hereditary well if captain comes home it will be quite easy for him to join you at and would indeed give him a little more time with you if he had to come all the way to england and it would be very good for him too it is a very good climate a climate i don t think that my husband needs anything of that kind i said with a laugh he has never had a day s illness in his life in fact i do not think he the strange of knows what ill health is one place ia very much the same to him as another except put in nurse smiling except that he has a preference for the place where madam ia ah yea i returned with a quick sigh but then that is natural very natural said sir holding out a kind white hand well now do you stay in london a fortnight let me see the effect of my treatment upon you and then do yon get away to and settle yourself there in a nice comfortable little hotel which i will recommend to you the hotel where i send all my we shall soon see if you are not as strong and well as if you had never been in india or had an illness in your life as we drove away down street nurse turned and put a question to me now mrs she said what do yon think of sir oh i think he is quite delightful nurse too charming he is nice she said half proudly indeed i always feel when i take a patient to sir for the first time that i am not only taking them to a great doctor i am introducing them to a great pleasure there is nobody quite like him yon may be a or you may be a charity patient sir s manner is always just the same he takes no more trouble with a than he does with the poor soul who cannot pay even a single fee his kindness is endless his charity unlimited bis good heart � oh what a heart it is i don t know she went on that i ever knew any human being for whom i have such a boundless respect as i have for sir and i was so hoping that he ht first impression of home would bend yon to ia a dear little place all among orange groves and trees and set on the side of a hill which slopes down to the blue waters of the the air is bright and crisp and the life delightfully free and simple indeed i think there is not such another place in all the wide world you have been more than once i several many people go there year after year and those who once get bitten with the love of it always seem to pine for it again it is a little half village half town and quite by what makes most of the big places on the so it is quite simple and primitive quite and yet e said with a smile a fashion of its own q l xii a whole week had gone by since my first interview with sir i was already greatly improved in health and my dislike of london was beginning to wear away nurse and i to leave and baby in the hotel to keep as warm as they by the blazing fire and go off on various errands of business or of pleasure i liked and when i had been to a good fur shop and had bought myself a warm coat i felt quite ready for any kind of climate in which i might happen to find myself i had instructions to go to sir every third day and every day i had a very special kind of bath which took two hours of the morning while in the i did my tor naturally i did not see being in london without taking the chance of some new and pretty cloth s got through a good deal of money but i enjoyed myself as much as it was possible for me to enjoy anything which was not shared by my i had a letter from him during that visit to london written poor dear very soon after our departure and full of regret and anxiety i felt rather like a fraud to think that he was worrying and 