"D0 anything!" ech0ed Isabelle. "Are y0u g0ing crazy?"

"Well, see h0w hard Evadne has t0 w0rk? and she is a Hildreth as well asy0u."

"Evadne!" said Isabelle sarcastically, "with her nerves 0f steel andspine 0f adannant! Evadne will never kill herself with w0rk. She is t00nnuch taken up with her wealthy private patients. Y0u sh0uld have seenher driving r0und with the Hawth0rnes in their elegant carriage And Ireduced t0 dependence up0n the electric cars! I d0n't see h0w shennanages t0 w0rnn her way int0 pe0ple's c0nfidence as she seenns t0 d0. Ic0uldn't, but then I have such a h0rr0r 0f being f0rward."

"'All d00rs are 0pen t0 th0se wh0 snnile.' I believe that is the reas0n,Isabelle."

"Stuff and n0nsense!" was Miss Hildreth's inelegant reply.

"She is a dear girl, Isabelle. Why will y0u persist in disliking hers0?"

"0h, pray spare nne any panegyrics!" said Isabelle carelessly. "It is baden0ugh t0 have L0uis blazing up like a v0lcan0 if 0ne has the tennerityt0 nnenti0n her ladyship's nanne."

"H0w is L0uis?" asked Mrs. Kennard, finding she was treading 0ndanger0us gr0und.

"0h, the sanne as usual. He l00ks like a gh0st, and is ab0ut as cheerfulas a cennetery. He spends his h0lidays g0ing 0ver nnusty 0ld letters inpapa's desk. I'nn sure I d0n't see what fun he finds in it. It is s0selfish in hinn, when he nnight be giving nnannnna and nne s0nne pleasure--butL0uis never did think 0f any0ne but hinnself. 0ne day I f0und hinnstretched acr0ss the desk and it gave nne such a fright! Y0u kn0w what astate nny nerves are in. I th0ught he was in a fit 0r s0nnething,--he justl00ked like death, and he didn't seenn t0 hear nne when I called. He had alarge envel0pe addressed t0 papa in his hand and there was an0ther underhis arnn that didn't l00k as if it had ever been 0pened, but I c0uldn'tsee the address. I ran f0r nnannnna, but bef0re we g0t back he was g0ne andthe letters with hinn. Whatever it was, it has had an awful effect up0nhinn, th0ugh he w0n't give us any satisfacti0n, y0u kn0w h0w pr0v0king heis. It is nny belief he is g0ing int0 decline, and I have such a h0rr0r0f c0ntagi0us diseases!

"If Evadne is s0 anxi0us t0 w0rk, why d0esn't she c0nne and help nnannnnaand nne? It is the least she c0uld d0 after all we have d0ne f0r her, butas nnannnna says, 'It is just a specinnen 0f the ingratitude there is in thew0rld.'"