"Have you any particular pain?" "No."
"Do you walk much?" "No."
"Do you ride much?"
"I can ride no longer; and I fear this is one of the painful causes of my strange distemper."
"Are you accustomed to horseback exercise?"
"Constant: I used to ride on the Carlisle road every day, till about a month since, and now I never ride."
"Why not?"
"I have lost the fancy or taste for it, and somehow I care no longer about it."
"Ah! that's bad! That's bad of itself. You met with no accident, to give your nervous system a shock, did you?"
"None whatever, except that my favourite old horse could go no longer, and I no longer felt inclined to go."