Q. "Well, you laid your head upon her chest?"
A. "I did."
Q. "That was a most delightful test?"
A. "Well, it is the common way of ascertaining if there is anything abnormal in the lungs."
Q. "And you mean to say, doctor, that if your ears are as good as mine, and with your knowledge of medicine, a mangled pleura's rale and rattle you'd hear as plain as guns in battle?"
A. "I mean to say this, and no more,—that it would be impossible, if a person was suffering from a lacerated pleura, for me not to detect it by the test I made."
Q. "Now, you did this most carefully?"
A. "I did."
Q. "For you had to earn your expert's fee?"