How do you mean?
Oswald.
He was one of the first doctors in Paris. I told him my symptoms; and then he set to work asking me a string of questions which I thought had nothing to do with the matter. I couldn’t imagine what the man was after——
Mrs. Alving.
Well?
Oswald.
At last he said: “There has been something worm-eaten in you from your birth.” He used that very word—vermoulu.
Mrs. Alving.
[Breathlessly.] What did he mean by that?
Oswald.