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"Do you want to begin with
something really characteristic?" she asked.
"That's it. Something to strike the nail on the head, first blow."
"Then lead off with the story of Pasteur's forgetting to go to his own
wedding. There's the most characteristic doctor story I know of."
"That's a direct insult," laughed Karl.
"Why, not at all, Karl," protested Mrs. McCormick, "every one knows you
were on hand for _your_ wedding."
"Yes, and a good thing he was," declared Ernestine. "I don't think I
should have been as meek and gentle about it as the bride of Pasteur. I
fancy I would have said: 'Oh, really now--if it's so much trouble, we'll
just let it go.'"
"No, Ernestine," said Mrs. McCormick, seriously, after the laugh, "I
don't believe you would have said that,"--and then they laughed again.
"Well, it's a good story," she insisted; "and characteristic. I believe
after all that Pasteur was a chemist and not a doctor, but the doctors
have appropriated him, so the story will be all right.


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