Go on--tell me more of your prospects.

Have you no acquaintance at Saxonholme whose society will make the place pleasant to you?
No boyish friends?
No pretty cousins?
No first-loves, from amongst whom to choose a wife in time to come ?" I shook my head sadly.
"Did I not tell you that my father was a misanthrope?
He visits no one, unless professionally.

We have no friends and no relations." "Humph! that's awkward.

However, it leaves you free to choose your own friends, when you go back.

A medical man need never be without a visiting connection.