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"Isn't it dreadful?" said Mrs. McCormick, turning to Dr. Parkman, "she
even interviews people while they eat!" Mrs. McCormick had that manner of
some mothers of seeming to be constantly disapproving, while not in the
least concealing her unqualified admiration.
"I'm not interviewing them, Mother. Skillful interviewers never
interview. They just get people to talk."
"But what is it you're going to write," asked the doctor, "a eulogy or
denunciation?"
"Both; something characteristic."
"Meaning that something characteristic about doctors would include both
good and bad?"
"Well, they're pretty human, aren't they?" laughed Georgia.
"And think how grateful we should be," ventured Karl, "for the inference
of something good."
Dr. Parkman looked over at him with a hearty: "That's right," relieved
that his friend could enter into things at all.
In the library before they came in, things had gone badly. Mrs. McCormick
held persistently to the topic of Karl's eyes, putting forth all sorts of
"home remedies" which would cure them in a night.


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