“Never.”
“You have had some serious illness?”
“Never.”
“Ah, you are an admiral. You have been abroad, tropics, malaria, ague—I know.”
“I have never had a day's illness.”
“Not to your knowledge; but you have inhaled unhealthy air, and it has left its effect. You have an organic murmur—slight but distinct.”
“Is it dangerous?”
“It might at anytime become so. You should not take violent exercise.”
“Oh, indeed. It would hurt me to run a half mile?”
“It would be very dangerous.”