"Why, it must have been sudden."
"Very."
"How did he die?"
"Too much absorbed in his business."
"What!"
"Fell into one of his beer vats and was drowned."
Then the medical man smiled gently, but I knew he would want to moralize on the story and I let fly again.
"Notice that tall gentleman over yonder?" I said, mysteriously.
"The one looking at those truffles?"