human
I'm so sorry you are not to be here at dinner, Ellen said, as Miss Ruston repacked her small travelling bag, while the car waited outside to take her to the station.
gpt
I should have liked you to meet our guest, Dr. Leaver. He is an old friend of my husband's, who has been ill and is here convalescing. He over-tired himself in taking a walk this morning, and has been resting in his room all the afternoon.
human
Dr. Leaver? Not Dr. John Leaver, of Baltimore?
gpt
Yes, indeed. Do you know him?
human
I have met him. Is he ill? I hadn't heard of that.
gpt
He has worked very hard, and is worn out, explained Ellen, choosing her terms carefully. Her husband had warned her against allowing any definite news concerning Leaver to get back to his home city.
human
He is improving, and we are keeping him here because it is a place where he can be out of the world, for a time, and not be called upon to go back before he should. So please don't mention to your Baltimore friends that he is here. I am ever so sorry, if you know him, that he wasn't down to-day. It might have done him good to see the face of an acquaintance.
gpt
It might be too stimulating for him,