"All patients?"
Pybus came forward. Pybus knows everyone.
"How are you, Dr. Goldsmith?"
"How are you, Mr. Pybus? Charmed to see you."
"Whether I am charmed to see you remains to be seen. May I ask--and don't think it's an impertinent question--what you have come for?"
"Come for? I----" The doctor threw a glance of interrogation towards Hughes. "I--someone came to my house and said that I was wanted for a case of----"
Old Pybus laid his hand upon the doctor's arm.
"Case of what?"
"A case of laudanum poisoning."
"Laudanum poisoning!"