But it is persistent, incorrigible, irrational, motiveless, useless.
"Stop and think about it a moment," she concluded, lowering her voice and taking advantage of the very novelty of the situation she had created.

"Such diseases are the product of civilization, of sensationalism.

Naturally enough, then, woman, with her delicately balanced nervous organization, is the first and chief offender--if you insist on calling such a person an offender under your antiquated methods of dealing with such cases." She had paused.
"What did you say you called this thing ?" asked Drummond as he tapped the arrangement on Annie Grayson's arm.
He was evidently not much impressed by it, yet somehow instinctively regarded it with somewhat of the feelings of an elephant toward a mouse.
"That ?" answered Constance, taking it off Annie Grayson's wrist before she could do anything with it.

"Why, I don't know that I said anything about it.

It is really a sphygmomanometer--the little expert witness that never lies--one of the instruments the insurance companies use now to register blood pressure and discover certain diseases.