Andeng is helping them clean a silver tea-set.
"Do you know Dr.Espadana ?" the foster-sister of Maria Clara asks Victoria curiously.
"No," replies the latter, "the only thing that I know about him is that he charges high, according to Capitan Tiago." "Then he must be good!" exclaims Andeng.

"The one who performed an operation on Dona Maria charged high; so he was learned." "Silly!" retorts Sinang.

"Every one who charges high is not learned.

Look at Dr.Guevara; after performing a bungling operation that cost the life of both mother and child, he charged the widower fifty pesos.

The thing to know is how to charge!" "What do you know about it ?" asks her cousin, nudging her.
"Don't I know?
The husband, who is a poor sawyer, after losing his wife had to lose his home also, for the alcalde, being a friend of the doctor's, made him pay.