I must telephone to him
at once."
III
After she had gone Alexina wrote not only her telegrams and cablegrams, but
the "letters to follow." It was nearly four o'clock when she finished. Old
Dr. Maitland had not yet come and she put her bulletins on the table in the
hall.
She heard Gora moving about her mother's room and retreated into her own.
She did not want to go to her mother yet nor did she care particularly
to see Gora again, although she had certainly been very nice and a great
comfort to them all.
Alexina was quite unaware that her attitude to her sister-in-law was one of
unconsicous condescension, of a well-bred determination never to wound the
pride of a social inferior. She found Gora an "interesting personality" and
quite extraordinarily efficient.
It had been the greatest relief to all the family when that very capable
Miss Dwight--Gora, that is; one must remember--had been brought by Dr.
Maitland to take charge of the case after Mrs. Groome's cardiac trouble
became acute and she demanded constant attention.
Gora had slept in Mrs. Groome's bedroom for six weeks, relieved for several
hours of the afternoon by a member of the family or one of Mrs. Groome's
many anxious friends. It was her first case and it interested her
profoundly. Moreover, her personal devotion placed her for the moment on a
certain basis of equality with a family whose mental processes were quite
transparent to her contemptuous mind.
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