"He doesn't wish to see anybody for a few days."
"Are you quite sure that if he knew I was here he wouldn't wish to see me?"
"How on earth can one be quite sure of what other people would think, or want, if this, or that, or the other?"
"Then why not find out?"
"Find out?"
"By asking. I certainly am not the man to force myself upon a friend against his will. But I should be very much obliged to you if you would tell your husband I'm here, and ask him whether he wouldn't like to see me."
"You really wish me to wake an invalid up in the dead of night, just as he's been got off to sleep, in order to receive a visitor! Well, then, I flatly refuse."
"Oh, if he is really asleep!"
"I told you that just before you arrived I had been playing the piano to him and that he had fallen asleep. I don't think you are very considerate this evening, Doctor Isaacson."
She got up.