D. This
drew upon my head the vial of Josephine's righteous wrath.
"Now, Fred, just stop and think for one moment," she said. "I have not
a word to say against Miss Jacket. I have no doubt she is a most
worthy young woman and an excellent physician, though I should never
care to consult her myself. But that is neither here nor there. Do
you happen to know what Miss Jacket's antecedents were, and what her
life has been?"
I shook my head droopingly.
"She was born in Ohio, and was left an orphan, and practically
unprovided for, at an early age. She was helped by kind friends--all
this is from her own lips--until she was old enough to help herself by
teaching, and then, by some means or other, she came East and studied
medicine, and made the start for herself that you see. All of which, I
beg to anticipate you in saying, is marvellously to her credit. She is
plainly a brilliant and capable young woman of whom any mother might be
proud, provided she had to be. But because it was creditable and
sensible in Miss Jacket to make the most of herself in that particular
way, you surely would not advocate that the daughters of the Princess
of Wales and the Empress of Germany should do the same."
"I should certainly advocate their doing something useful," I said in
my dogged fashion.
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