Chapter 1

"NOT YET"

_Illustrations_

"I hope you do not think I am wrong?" . . . _Frontispiece_

"Oh, Marcus, how happy we are!"

"Olive, look what Mr. Gaythorne has given me"

Mr. Gaythorne sat in his great ebony chair

"It is beautiful--it is perfectly charming!"

"They both looked so comfortable and contented"

Doctor Luttrell's First Patient