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“You don’t say so?” quizzed Paul; “‘mixed,’ and like the Chinese. What a wonderful insight for diagnosis palmistry possesses!” The Doctor continued:

“In the main, her hand manifests the exceeding rare psychic type,—that is, she loves and seeks the truth for its own sake.”

“There! I told you she was angelic, a practical angel,” interrupted Paul. The Doctor kept straight on:

“And with this there are other features indicating both the useful and the philosophic elements in her make-up, very strong, each in its own relative domain.”

“Extraordinary! truly!” quoth Paul. “The useful must have come to the front when she was acting nurse, and the philosophic when she told me we had danced enough for one evening. As to the psychic,—let me see! the psychic!—well, to be frank, Doctor, I can’t say I have seen that as yet.”

“Oh, yes, you have,” thought the Doctor, “or you would not be showing the interest you are taking just now.” This sub rosa, and then he turned the topic once more:

“Where do you suppose she got those traits, so forcible in combination?”