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And all the while , gossip in connection with Ray Meredith filtered through from various sources , and caused no little comment among his friends . At last a letter to Mrs. Bright from Mrs. Ironsides , who was spending a month at the Sanitorium , placed it beyond doubt that Ray Meredith was very securely in the toils of his former nurse who was in the same hotel , in charge of a child suffering from jaundice . `` She has been in Darjeeling , with one pretext and another , I am told , ever since Mr. Meredith recovered , '' the lady wrote , `` and people are beginning to look askance at her for the flagrant manner in which she flaunts her ascendancy over him . It is a thousand pities his wife is not with him , for he is at the woman 's heels morning , noon , and night . Rumour says their rooms adjoin ! I should feel inclined to blame him soundly were it not for the fact that he looks very delicate since his illness , and that people recovering from sunstroke are not altogether themselves . Possibly he is merely drifting for want of someone sufficiently interested in him to save him !