"
"Did he?" she asked eagerly, for she had learned to seize upon all which
would buoy her up.
"We all think so," he replied earnestly. "Even Mr. Willard, who, as you
may have observed, is not an enthusiast, said the other day that you were
becoming really useful."
She brightened, and then laughed. She had never supposed she would be
inordinately pleased to have a man like Mr. Willard say she was really
useful.
"While Mr. Beason went so far as to assert that you had a general
intelligence not unlike that of a man."
She laughed heartily at that. "Well, I'm afraid they won't think I have
the nerve or sense of a man when I get in the operating room this
afternoon," she said with a wry little face.
"Well, remember what it's all for," he said, in that simple way of his
which went so far because it was so direct, "and remember that we are all
believing in you."
In response to that she went back to her work with new resolution.
It was a little before two when her lagging footsteps brought her in
sight of the hospital.
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