I believe you are right.
CHARLES.
It is best, then, to fix your attention on the severe pain a person may suffer, and then your involuntary laughter would subside into pity.
JAMES.
I fear this will not help me much.
CHARLES.
You fear, then, that your heart is not good.
JAMES.
No, not so neither, for I declare to you, I was very sorry when I saw Dr. Bartlett had hurt himself, and then I had no inclination to laugh.
CHARLES.