or else I am furious with him. Then I
am overwhelmed with mortification and make up my mind that I _will_ get
on with him, no matter what happens. And of course he can be perfectly
lovely when he wants to be--and then he will deliberately go and do some
horrid thing which makes me want to go away and--drive an auto stage, or
something."

As a matter of fact Nancy would on these occasions, retire and invest
herself in some such romantic, emancipated, role. Possibly she would be
a great surgeon. Having gone through her preliminary training with
unprecedented speed, she had established herself as a famous
specialist--of the brain. People who had gone wrong in their heads would
be brought to her by their desperate friends and relatives. If she only
would help them out. She did usually, although heaven knew that she was
but one little woman to so many brains, and as she worked chiefly under
God's guidance, anyway, she had to conserve her strength. However, she
operated steadily from eight in the morning until eight at night with
only a light lunch in between--possibly only a water cracker. She saw
herself in the operating room with her rubber gloves and her knives.
There was a hazy cloud of white-robed nurses and distinguished surgeons
who, attracted from all over the world, had come to see her miracles for
themselves. A form was on the table, with head shaved. She was to go
into his cerebellum and take out a tumor which had caused deafness,
dumbness, and blindness. She would probably have to make two hundred
stitches or more in sewing him up, but she always had been good at
needlework, and it gave her no concern. She picked up her saw--but to
her horror she found she couldn't bear to stick it in!

Or she was a famous lawyer, strongly reminiscent of Portia, specializing
in pleading for widows and orphans. She had a secretary to handle her
correspondence, who explained that as Miss Whitman was able to work
chiefly by the grace of God--her health was none too robust, and it was
necessary for her to put her trust in Him--it really was not fair of
them to expect her to handle their cases. However, the most outrageous
ones she passed on to Nancy and it was by them that Nancy made her great
reputation. Of course she took no fees, but as body and soul had to be
kept together and the secretary's salary paid, she wrote syndicated
articles for the papers, on religious and ethical subjects. Naturally
she was an object of interest and