Dr. Duncan continuing, unchecked—
"But advice he ought to have. If he would rather not come to me, let him go to London by all means."
"Why should he not go to you?"
"Can't say! The fact is patent."
"And you don't think him in good health? Why, I should have said—Why, he came in here last week, looking positively robust. Fads and fancies enough, I dare say, but as for being ill—"
"Looks are deceptive sometimes."
"Except to the initiated, I suppose. You don't mean that anything is seriously wrong?"
"I can't speak with authority. I have not examined the case. All I say is—as anybody might say—that he ought not to go on without advice."
"And if he does?"
Dr. Duncan was silent.