The Dop Doctor. Richard Dehan

      "Your friend is a nun? At the Convent here? How did you come across her?"

      "She called to see the Bishop's son – while I was with him. It seems that, judging by the poor dear boy's religious manuals and medals, and other High Church contraptions, the Matron had got him on the Hospital books as a Roman Catholic. And, consequently, when my friend looked in to visit a day-scholar who was to be operated on for adenoids – I've no idea what they are, but a thing with a name like that would naturally have to be cut out of one – she was told of this poor fellow, and has shed the light of her countenance on him occasionally since. Yesterday was one of the occasions, and Heavens! what a countenance it is even now! What a voice, what eyes, what a manner! I believed I gushed a bit… She met me as though we'd only parted last week. Nuns are wonderful creatures: she's unique, even as a nun."