There, I must be going; I see Patrick
is at the door with the carriage. So good-by, and don't overwork
yourself, Eric."
"Mamma," Evelyn called after her, "Patrick is to go for the doctor, you
know."
"Oh, yes; I'll tell him," Mrs. Leland answered, and the next moment the
carriage was whirling away down the drive.
"There, she is gone!" said Evelyn. "Oh, papa, when I am a woman I shall
not marry unless I feel that I can always be content to stay with my
husband when he is not able to go with me."
"But business may prevent him very often when sickness does not, and you
may grow very weary of staying always at home," he said, softly smoothing
her hair, then bending to touch his lips to her smooth white forehead and
smile into the large dark eyes lifted to his as she knelt at the side of
his chair.
"No, no! not if he is as dear and kind as you are, papa. But no other man
is, I think."
"Quite a mistake, my pet; the world surely contains many better men than
your father."
"I should be exceedingly angry if any one else said that to me," she
returned indignantly.
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