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As they passed Dr. Armitage 's house he said : `` Dr. Armitage is not at home . '' And she answered emphatically : `` I am glad of it . '' Then he wondered if she were glad for the same reason he was . At noon Mr. and Mrs. Hastings arrived , and before the day was done the other anxious watchers had reason heartily to wish that their coming had been longer delayed . Evidently Dora had not inherited her self-control from her mother , or if she had Mrs. Hastings had not a tithe of it remaining , and her nervousness added not a little to the wildness of the suffering patient . Mr. Hastings on his part seemed anxious and angry , both in one . He said to Dora savagely that he hoped it would teach the reckless fellow a lesson that he would never forget , and resented with haughty silence Dr. Arnold 's sententious reply , that `` it was likely to do just that . ''