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St. Victoria's day the doctor was full two hours late. Mary was not anxious about this. She was beginning to feel bravely about the boy, and no longer counted the minutes till she could hear the door-bell ring. When he came he loitered in the entry below, -- or she thought he did. He was long coming up stairs. And when he came in she saw that he was excited by something, -- was really even then panting for breath.
"I am here at last," he said. "Did you think I should fail you?"