"Reading that book didn't heal him."
"Still he claims it did, he stopped taking medicine, began reading the book, and soon we saw he was improving."
"Rest assured it wasn't the book."
"He does not claim it was the book, but the truth the book contained that did the work."
"Nonsense! there is no truth in that book."
"How, then, can we account for his getting well?"
"Probably the after effect of the medicine, or else he only believed himself sick."
"That is just what he claims, that he was only sick in belief and not in reality."
"Just as I thought," said the Rev. Jones.
"What do you mean, Mr. Jones?"