I hope you have been well attended to downstairs ?' 'Perfectly.

And though it is unfortunate, and I am sorry to see you laid up, I beg you will not take the slightest notice of my being in the house the while.' 'I will not.

But I shall be down to-morrow.

My daughter is an excellent doctor.

A dose or two of her mild mixtures will fetch me round quicker than all the drug stuff in the world.