She is not in a condition to resist.

When her system exhausts, it does not refill, as it were." "What sort of dictionary talk is that?
Run down--here ?" The old man sniffed the air like an ancient sow.

"Run down--in this life, with the best of food, warm weather, and more ozone than a sailor gets at sea! It's an insult to Jehovah, such nonsense." "Mr.Mazarine," rejoined the Young Doctor with ominous determination in his eye, "you know a good deal, I should think, about spring wheat and fall ploughing, about making sows fat, or burning fallow land--that's your trade, and I shouldn't want to challenge you on it all; or you know when to give a horse bran-mash, or a heifer salt-petre, but--well, I know my job in the same way.

They will tell you, about here, that I have a kind of hobby for keeping people from digging and crawling into their own graves.

That's my business, and the habit of saving human life, because you're paid for it, becomes in time a habit of saving human life for its very own sake.