Those who knew the doctor well, would have known from his bow that he was not well pleased; it was as much as though he said, "Lady Scatcherd, I am your most obedient humble servant; at any rate it appears that it is your pleasure to treat me as such." Lady Scatcherd did not understand all this; but she perceived at once that the man was angry.
"I hope Sir Roger does not find himself worse," said the doctor.

"The morning is getting on; shall I step up and see him ?" "Hem! ha! oh! Why, you see, Dr Fillgrave, Sir Roger finds hisself vastly better this morning, vastly so." "I'm very glad to hear it; but as the morning is getting on, shall I step up to see Sir Roger ?" "Why, Dr Fillgrave, sir, you see, he finds hisself so much hisself this morning, that he a'most thinks it would be a shame to trouble you." "A shame to trouble me!" This was the sort of shame which Dr Fillgrave did not at all comprehend.

"A shame to trouble me! Why Lady Scatcherd--" Lady Scatcherd saw that she had nothing for it but to make the whole matter intelligible.

Moreover, seeing that she appreciated more thoroughly the smallness of Dr Fillgrave's person than she did the peculiar greatness of his demeanour, she began to be a shade less afraid of him than she had thought she should have been.
"Yes, Dr Fillgrave; you see, when a man like he gets well, he can't abide the idea of doctors: now, yesterday, he was all for sending for you; but to-day he comes to hisself, and don't seem to want no doctor at all." Then did Dr Fillgrave seem to grow out of his boots, so suddenly did he take upon himself sundry modes of expansive attitude;--to grow out of his boots and to swell upwards, till his angry eyes almost looked down on Lady Scatcherd, and each erect hair bristled up towards the heavens.
"This is very singular, very singular, Lady Scatcherd; very singular, indeed; very singular; quite unusual.

I have come here from Barchester, at some considerable inconvenience, at some very considerable inconvenience, I may say, to my regular patients; and--and--and--I don't know that anything so very singular ever occurred to me before." And then Dr Fillgrave, with a compression of his lips which almost made the poor woman sink into the ground, moved towards the door.
Then Lady Scatcherd bethought her of her great panacea.