`` My dear Peter , '' he said gravely , `` I am VERY sorry to see you here -- very sorry indeed . '' I admit that this exasperated me . Besides , no man on earth , not even my own family doctor , has any right to `` My dear Peter '' me ! `` There is no loud call for sorrow , doctor , '' I said loftily . `` If a woman , forty-eight years of age , a member of the Presbyterian church in good and regular standing , can not call upon one of her Sunday School scholars without wrecking all the proprieties , how old must she be before she can ? '' The doctor did not answer my question . Instead , he looked reproachfully at Alexander Abraham . `` Is this how you keep your word , Mr. Bennett ? '' he said . `` I thought that you promised me that you would not let anyone into the house . '' `` I did n't let her in , '' growled Mr. Bennett . `` Good heavens , man , she climbed in at an upstairs window , despite the presence on my grounds of a policeman and a dog ! What is to be done with a woman like that ? '' `` I do not understand what all this means , '' I said addressing myself to the doctor and ignoring Alexander Abraham entirely , `` but if my presence here is so extremely inconvenient to all concerned , you can soon be relieved of it . I am going at once . '' `` I am very sorry , my dear Peter , '' said the doctor impressively , `` but that is just what I can not allow you to do . This house is under quarantine for smallpox . You will have to stay here . '' Smallpox ! For the first and last time in my life , I openly lost my temper with a man .
I wheeled furiously XXXXX Alexander Abraham .
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