A Matter of Time [antikvár]

I Blix's letter came addressed to my maiden name, Tasmania Murphy. This wasn't Blix's way of saying, "Whatever your name may be now." I've had only two husbands; and I've been Mrs. Pete Orcino for the last twenty years. No, that slip of the pen came out of Blix's remembrance as she wrote of the days when she had been able to depend upon me as big sister and substitute mother. What that address said unconsciously, was: "Be to me what once you were." The letter began, "Sister, dear sister, there are things I must know." The things she must know were medical and not of a nature to be found in volumes of "What to Do Till the Doctor Comes." I might have laid my hands on other books, but I wanted the ^ information to be explicit and from someone I knew and trusted. I went to my own doctor. I pretended a piece of writing for which I needed certain facts. Dr. Benedict was delighted. He saw a new and unsuspected facet in his patient. "Why, Tassie, what have you been hiding 3