"
"Certainly I would not," Mrs. Doolan said promptly. "Married men
have no right to run into unnecessary danger."
"Dr. Wade will be able to put you in the way, Mr. Richards," Isobel
said.
"Dr. Wade!" Mrs. Rintoul exclaimed. "You don't mean to say, Miss
Hannay, that he is going with us?"
"Yes, he is going for a time, Mrs. Rintoul. My uncle told me that
he had applied to go with the detachment, and that the surgeon
there would come back to the regiment while he is away."
"I do call that hard," Mrs. Rintoul said. "The only thing I was
glad we were going for was that we should be under Mr. M'Alaster,
who is very pleasant, and quite understands my case, while Dr.
Wade does not seem to understand it at all, and is always so very
brusque and unsympathetic."
There was a general smile.
"Wade is worth a hundred of M'Alaster," Captain Roberts said.
"There is not a man out here I would rather trust myself to if I
were ill. He is an awfully good fellow, too, all round, though he
may be, as you say, a little brusque in manner."
"I call him a downright bear," Mrs. Rintoul said angrily. "Why,
only last week he told me that if I would get up two hours earlier
and go for a brisk walk just after sunrise, and give up eating meat
at tiffin, and confine myself to two or three dishes at dinner,
I should be perfectly well in the course of a month; just as if
I was in the habit of overeating myself, when I have scarcely the
appetite of a sparrow.
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