"What is the use of it?" he asked, speaking to his wife. "If a celebrated specialist can't do her any good, I know that an old man's prayer can't."
"We ought not to deny her anything," the wife answered.
"And we ought not to inflict her with anything," the husband replied.
"Prayer was never an infliction to her."
"But this old man's praying is an infliction to the rest of us."
"Not to me; and you needn't hear him."
"I can't help it if I'm at home."
"But you needn't be at home when he comes."
"Oh, I suppose I could go over and stand on the lake shore, but it would be rather unpleasant this time of year."
"There are other places you can go."