"Well, I'm incapable of making them." It seemed now queer enough. "I
can't stay to dinner."
"Then we'll go." With which however. Doctor Hatch was not too
preoccupied to have had his attention, within the minute, otherwise
taken. "What a splendid piece!" he exclaimed in presence of the ivory
tower.
"It _is_ splendid," said Gray, feeling its beauty again the brightest
note in the strangeness; but with a pang of responsibility to it taking
him too. "Miss Gaw has made me a present of it."
"Already? You do work them!"--and the good physician fairly grazed again
the act of mirth. "So you'll take it away?"
Gray paused a moment before his acquisition, which seemed to have begun
to guard, within the very minute, a secret of greater weight. Then "No,
I'll come back to it," he said as they departed by the long window that
opened to the grounds and through which Miss Mumby had brought him in.