"And the experiment has succeeded?"
"Yes."
"Are you very fond of your profession?"
"It is the finest profession in the world."
"All medical men say that," she remarked, smiling.
"Well, I can claim the merit—if it be a merit—of having arrived at that conclusion before I became—"
"Eminent?" she suggested.
"Before I had taken my degree," I corrected.
"So you came and established yourself as a doctor in this old place?"
She glanced round meditatively.