Chapter 39

I almost felt myself smiling as I answered; He began to relieve the long stress of worrying about his life and told him:

"No sir!"

“Then why are you here if you are not a doctor, then what are you?”

His tone was again more dictatorial and the thought fast The full train of thought upon which my answer should be based flooded my mind before the words left my lips and Margaret! I must think of Margaret! This was her father, who hitherto knew nothing of me; Even my very existence would naturally be curious, if not anxious, to know why he had chosen me among men as his daughter's friend on the occasion of his illness. Such is the nature of all fathers a little (jealous) in such matters as the choice of a daughter, and in the unexpressed state of my love for Margaret I ought to do nothing. It might embarrass her in the end.

"I am a solicitor, and yet I am here in that capacity, but simply as a friend of your daughter, and it may have been the k