"Oh, that means 'God only knows,'" replied the English physician.
The fashionable physician walked in, in his breezy way, and nodded smilingly at his patient.
"Well, here I am, Mrs. Adams," he announced. "What do you think is the matter with you this morning?"
"Doctor, I hardly know," murmured the fashionable patient languidly. "What is new?"
"When I was a boy," said the gray-haired physician, who happened to be in a reminiscent mood, "I wanted to be a soldier; but my parents persuaded me to study medicine."
"Oh, well," rejoined the sympathetic druggist, "such is life. Many a man with wholesale aspirations has to content himself with a retail business."
The eminent physicians had been called in consultation. They had retired to another room to discuss the patient's condition. In the closet of that room a small boy had been concealed by the patient's directions to listen to what the consultation decided and to tell the patient who desired genuine information.