[Pg 41] CHAPTER V. A CONVERSATION WITH THE DISAGREEABLE WOMAN. CHAPTER V. A CONVERSATION WITH THE DISAGREEABLE WOMAN. One afternoon between five and six o'clock I was passing the Star Theatre, when I overtook the Disagreeable Woman. I had only exchanged a few remarks with her at the table, and scarcely felt acquainted. I greeted her, however, and waited with some curiosity to see what she would have to say to me. "Dr. Fenwick, I believe?" she said. "Yes; are you on your way to supper?" "I am. Have you had a busy day?" As she said this she looked at me sharply. "I have had two patients, Miss [Pg 42]Blagden. I am a young physician, and not well known yet. I advance slowly." [Pg 42] "You have practised in the country?" "Yes." "Pardon me, but would it not have been better to remain there, where you were known, than to come to a large city where you are as one of the sands of the sea?" "I sometimes ask myself that question, but as yet I am unprepared with an answer. I am ambitious, and the city offers a much larger field." "With a plenty of laborers already here." "Yes." "I suppose you have confidence in yourself?" Again she eyed me sharply.
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