I'd never be a doctor's wife if I had to help him cut up human beings." "I'll remember that," the Young Doctor replied mockingly.
"But if it would help put things on a right basis, I'd make a bargain that I wasn't to help do the carving," she rejoined wickedly.

The Young Doctor always incited her to say daring things.

They understood each other well.

"So don't let that stand in the way," she added slyly.
"The man who marries you will be glad to get you without the anatomy," he returned gallantly.
"I wasn't talking of a man; I was talking of a doctor." He threw up a hand and his eyebrows.

"Isn't a doctor a man ?" "Those I've seen have been mostly fish." "No feelings--eh ?" She looked him in the eyes, and he felt a kind of shiver go through him.
"Not enough to notice.