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alone with the lady of Eastmead, Doctor Ramage studied his watch a little absently. "Our young friend's exceedingly nervous."

Mrs. Beever glanced in the direction in which Rose had disappeared. "Do you allude to that girl?"

"I allude to dear Mrs. Tony."

"It's equally true of Miss Armiger; she's as worried as a pea on a pan. Julia, as far as that goes," Mrs. Beever continued, "can never have been a person to hold herself together."

"Precisely—she requires to be held. Well, happily she has Tony to hold her."

"Then he's not himself in one of his states?"

Doctor Ramage hesitated. "I don't quite make him out. He seems to have fifty things at once in his head."

Mrs. Beever looked at the Doctor hard. "When