There was an unwonted huskiness in Dr.
Borden's voice, and Ackley, usually so grim and prompt, held the
girl's hand lingeringly as he tried to make a joke about her defying
him and the whole Confederacy. It was a dismal failure. Regarding
him with her weary eyes, she said:
"Doctor, you had wit enough and heart enough to understand and
subdue me. Haven't I minded you since?"
"I'm a little afraid you'd still get the upper hand if you often
looked at me as you do now. I shall find out, however, if you will
obey one more order. Miss Baron, you MUST rest. Your pulse indicates
unusual exhaustion. You have tried to do too much, and I expect
those young men have been making such fierce and counter claims that
you are all worn out. Ah, if I had been only twenty years younger I
would have won you by a regular course of scientific love-making."
"I don't know anything about science and wouldn't understand you. So
it is better as it is, for I do understand what a good, kind friend
you've been. You knew all the while that I was little more than an
ignorant child, yet your courtesy was so fine that you treated me
like a woman.
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