"It is certainly very sad," quoth the other, "if it is quite true, which I doubt."
"Go talk to your neighbors then; they have not been absent like yourself for a good long year."
"I am not interested enough," the other began.
"But you ought to be," interpolated Frank. "As a physician you ought to recognize the peculiarities of such a prejudice. Why, if I had such a case——"
"But the case is not mine. I am not and never have been Miss Cavanagh's physician."
"Well, well, her friend then."
"Who told you I was her friend?"
"I don't remember; I understood from some one that you used to visit her."
"My neighbors, as you call them, have good memories."