Ada," he explained, with a reassuring smile; "and as you were so much stronger this afternoon I brought them up. Do you feel equal to it?"
She nodded her head wearily, her eyes on the doctor.
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Plan of Ada's bedroom.
Vance, who had paused by the mantel to inspect the hand-carving of the quadræ, now turned and approached the bed.
"Sergeant," he said, "if you don't mind, let me talk to Miss Greene first."
Heath realized, I think, that the situation called for tact and delicacy; and it was typical of the man's fundamental bigness that he at once stepped aside.
