"Who told you that?"
"Everybody's saying it."
"Everybody is dead wrong."
"What do you mean, Daddy?"
"What I have just said. Everybody is dead wrong."
"How do you know?"
"A doctor knows a great many things which he is not permitted to tell. I am rather bound not to tell in this case."
"Oh, but you could tell me."
"Hardly—it was given in confidence."
"Did he? Oh, Daddy, did he tell you?"