"Well, two or three months."
"Two or three months! You don't mean to say you want to confine me here two or three months?"
"I hope I can release you sooner."
"You can't understand your business very well, or you would see at once that I am not insane."
"That's what all my patients say. They won't any of them own that their minds are affected."
"Will you supply me with some writing materials?"
"Yes; Samuel shall bring them here."
"I suppose you will excuse my suggesting also that it is dinner time?"
"He shall bring you some dinner at the same time."
The old man retired, but in fifteen minutes a plate of meat and vegetables was brought to the room.