"Do the best you can for Edith.

As for the rest, know nothing, say nothing.

You understand." Doctor Burt Radcliffe had a large practice among rich and fashionable people.

He had learned to be very considerate of their weaknesses, peculiarities and moral obliquities.

His business was to doctor them when sick, to humor them when they only thought themselves sick, and to get the largest possible fees for his, services.