Her body relaxed under his grip. She smiled again and gasped:
“May-I-please-have-a-drink-of-water?”
When the glass was empty Cub eased her into the pillows and she laughed:
“I didn’t mean to hiss in your ear, Doctor, but if I hadn’t completed the sentence in one breath, you’d have yelped: ‘NO!’”
Dr. Sterling ignored the remark and asked:
“Is that comfortable?”
Then Cub barked:
“You ought to have better sense than to antagonize your doctor!”
The patient responded:
“Extremely comfortable, thank you.”