Excerpt from The Powers at Play

She came running down-stairs into the big, dimly lighted drawing-room, his card still in her hand.

"It is Dr. Colburn, I see, " she exclaimed delightedly. "Let me congratulate you. Really, isn't it impressive!" She wept downward and backward in mock ceremony, with eyes fixed demurely upon the gleaming card which announced to the world that Samuel W. Colburn had been made an M.D.

"Thank you, Miss Warburton, " said the young fellow, laughing. "It is the first time I have used one of them. You don't mind my experimenting upon you? I thought I detected Robert smiling a little when he took it up-stairs."

"Robert smiling? You alarm me, Dr. Colburn. No, we won't sit down here, after all. Come into my room, it's so very much cooler."

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