"No, no. It is time there were discussions."
"Discuss away, then, but do not choose me for your text. I am a healthy subject."
"Do you not think it wrong to affirm and reaffirm what is substantially untrue?"
"I say I am well. I have neither cough, pain, nor fever."
"Is there no equivocation in that assertion? Is it the direct truth?"
"The direct truth."
Louis Moore looked at her earnestly.
"I can myself," he said, "trace no indications of actual disease. But why, then, are you altered?"
"Am I altered?"
"We will try. We will seek a proof."