“Because I’m a fool!”
“Did anybody ever dispute it?” she asked with a silvery laugh. “There! Not another word. You are my patient, remember. You mustn’t talk back.”
“Your touch is the touch of an angel.”
“Did you ever see an angel?”
“I’m vis-à-vis with one this holy minute. Ouch! Confound that pain!”
“I thought you enjoyed my surgery. You said you did.”
“I have just said I was a fool.”
“Did I dispute it?”
He laughed in spite of his pain. “Say, Little Doctor, are you never going to let me talk it out?”
“Talk what out?”