stly and shook her head.

"Why, no, Mr. Clifford, since you ask me, I can honestly say that it
seems to both the night-nurse and me an unusually light case of
typhoid--about the lightest I've ever nursed, I should say. It
certainly _is_ typhoid, yet he has never run as high a temperature as
one expects."

"Considering his age, that's lucky, isn't it?"

"Yes, of course, oh, yes!"

He thought she seemed a little puzzled.

"Has the doctor's treatment of the case anything to do with it, do you
think?"

She smiled and shook her head.

"No, there isn't much one can do in typhoid, it's mainly a question of
what not to do. I only hesitated because we--the other nurse and
I--both think it a little odd that Sir Charles, who's an old man,
should have such a mild case, when the type that's going around is
rather severe."

"Oh, I see. Well, I suppose there's no accounting for these things, is
there?"

"No, and in any case we can't complain, can we?"

He liked her laugh and the frank way she looked at him. Her eyes were
as clear as a sunny pool that mirrored brown leaves. He liked, too,
the freshness of her skin, and her rather square white teeth, with a
tiny space separating the middle two. They made her look so honest.
It was a friendly, fearless face, yet there was sensitiveness about it,
evident from the way the colour mounted into the cheeks at the
closeness of his scrutiny.

"Where do you come from?" he asked suddenly.

"Manitoba," was the prompt reply, "the western part."

"Oh--the plains?"

"Yes, but I'm astonished at your knowing."

"Do I look so ignorant?"

"Everyone over here is ignorant about American geography. I never
expect them to know anything. When I mentioned Manitoba to one man, he
said at once, 'Oh, yes, Central America!'"

Roger laughed.

"I shouldn't like to be cross-examined myself, but I know a little
about Canada. I think, too, that you have the look of the plains."

"What sort of look is that?"

He hesitated, and his eyes twinkled.

"An extremely nice look."

They both laughed at this.

"To be definite, it is a certain breadth across here"--he indicated the
cheek-bones--"and then your eyes, the way they are set, and a sort of
shining brightness about them. I should think you are very
far-sighted. Are you?"

"Well, do you know, I am. I grew up in a country where one could see
for miles and miles. When I first went into hospital training, my eyes
began to troubl