what are — you can’t live down there all your days. It’s to be life and work for you, sir, and what are you going to do with her, I say?”

“I’ll bring her here with me. She’ll come.”

“Of course you’ll bring her here with you, and you — you’ll have plenty of friends. Maybe they’ll appreciate her, and maybe they won’t; maybe they won’t, I say; Understand? And she’ll c — come. Oh, yes, she’ll come! she’ll do whatever you say, and presently she’ll break her heart and die for you. She’ll never say a word, but that’s what she’ll do.”

“Why, Doctor!” cried David, appalled. “I love her as my own life — my very soul.”