The Doctor Is Indifferent — Juliet Armstrong

"By the way, Miss Burmayne, your knight-errant is a doctor -- and a bit of a woman-hater, I'm afraid, for all his knightly behavior. When I went to look at the table-lists in the dining-saloon just now, I actually heard him asking the Chief Steward if he could be transferred to a table where there were men only... Aboard the S.S. Johannes-Maartens, sailing for the Caribbean, this dry comment from Daphne Burmayne's friend was not exactly encouraging towards Daphne's growing interest in Doctor Niall McLinnis. And even when they reached Raballo and circumstances threw them together, it seemed that Doctor Niall's clinic was the one absorbing feature of his life. Nothing, however, could stop Daphne from hoping!