Dr. Walton

Mrs. Brympton's doctor, Dr. Walton, is said to drive over from town about once a week to check on the mistress;¹ He also has sent for Alice Hartley to give her ''some trifling direction''² about her mistress, although Hartley still cannot figure out what ails Mrs. Brympton.

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1 Lewis, R. W. B. The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton. (Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1968. 457-474, Print.), 463.

2 Ibid.