He is Mr. Crozier's honest, clever friend. I've got an idea--
an invention to put this thing right. It's a good one. You'll see. But
I want the Young Doctor to know about it. He never has to think twice.
He knows what to do the very first time."
A moment later they were in the other room, with the Young Doctor smiling
down at "the little spot of a woman," as he called Crozier's wife.
CHAPTER XIV
AWAITING THE VERDICT
"You look quite settled and at home," the Young Doctor remarked, as he
offered Mrs. Crozier a chair. She took it, for never in her life had she
felt so small physically since coming to the great, new land. The
islands where she was born were in themselves so miniature that the minds
of their people, however small, were not made to feel insignificant. But
her mind, which was, after all, vastly larger in proportion than the body
enshrining it, felt suddenly that both were lost in a universe. Her
impulse was to let go and sink into the helplessness of tears, to be
overwhelmed by an unconquerable loneliness; but the Celtic courage in
her, added to that ancient native pride which prevents one woman from
giving way before another woman towards whom she bears jealousy,
prevented her from showing the weakness she felt.
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