And for the rest of that day it was only at rare intervals, and even then with a little shock of surprise, like that with which one suddenly comes upon some old picture of himself, that she remembered she was a doctor of medicine.  The physician was submerged in the woman.  And the woman was alive to her finger-tips with realization of her endowment of the “eternal feminine.”

Adams slept little that night, but lay with his head on his interlocked hands, staring out of his window at the fleeting shadows of the summer night, thinking of Elizabeth, remembering what Elizabeth had said during the day, seeing Elizabeth’s face and eyes and the bit of white throat that showed above her collar, hearing Elizabeth’s voice, and longing to touch, with even a finger-tip, the sweep of soft brown hair that rippled away from her neck.  It seemed to him that morning would never come.  He looked at his watch a score of times, and, finally, rose at the first flush of dawn.

For a while he moved restlessly back and forth between his section and the smoking-room, like an uneasy ghost of murdered sleep.  But at last it occurred to him that he ought to stay out until Miss Black was ready for breakfast, lest he might embarrass her by being near when she should emerge from behind her curtains in morning dishabille.  So he retired to the smoker, gave the porter a goodly fee to tell him when the lady in Number 8 arose, and sat down resolutely at the window with his elbows on the sill and his chin in his hands.  He sat there determinedly, not allowing himself even to turn around, through what seemed hours and hours of time.  Now and then he dozed a little, and awoke with a start, dreaming he had heard her voice beside him or had felt the ripple of her dress against his hand.

When at last the porter brought the welcome news, he went back to his seat and waited for Elizabeth to reappear from the dressing-room.  It seemed to him that it must be near noon, although it was only eight o’clock, when finally he saw her coming down the aisle.  He quickly bent his head over some memoranda with which he had been trying to occupy himself, and pretended to be writing very busily as she moved toward her section.  But afterwards, when he looked at the paper he found on it only some meaningless scrawls.  Elizabeth’s color deepened as she saw him and a dark crimson wave swept to his brow as he felt her draw near.

That day Adams rarely left her side.  In his tones, his looks, his manner, she was able to read his love as plainly as if it had been put into words.  “And of course,” she thought, with an inward smile, “he thinks he is concealing it all from me, and he would be surprised to find that I know anything about it.”

Her own heart throbbed in response so exultantly and so gladly that it carried her feeling beyond the doors of expression and transformed it into irradiating feminine charm.  It sparkled in her eyes, gave a new winsomeness to her smile, a softer grace to her movements, and a penetrating sweetness to her voice.