human
I want you to do more than nurse this case, Amy, he said, fixing her with a certain steady look of his with which he always gave commands.
gpt
I want you to put all your powers, as a woman, into it. Forget that you are nursing Dr. Leaver, try to think of him as a friend. You can make one of him, if you try, for you have in you qualities which will appeal to him--if you will let him see them. You have hardly let even me see them, --he smiled as he said it,--
human
--he spoke with a touch of the dangerously persuasive manner he could assume when he willed, and which most people found it hard to resist,--
gpt
Dr. Burns! Do you realize what you're saying?
human
Quite thoroughly. I'm asking you not to hesitate to make of yourself a woman of interest and charm for him, for the sake of taking him out of himself. Isn't that a perfectly legitimate part for a nurse to play when that happens to be the medicine needed? You have those powers,--how better could you use them? Suppose you are able, through your effect of sweetness and light, to minister to a mind diseased;--isn't that quite as worthy an occupation as counting out drops of aconite, or applying mustard plasters?
gpt
Do you realize, Dr. Burns, that a man like--your guest--is so far beyond me in mind and--tastes--in every way, that I could never--interest him in the way you speak of--even if I were willing to try?