If, as with Lamb, a lie or worse be needed, there is a certain satisfaction in having outwitted nurse and doctor.
On the day after the two clergymen had heard John's final opinion of Lamb, the bed-fast man received his daily visit from his spiritual physician, and the clergyman met at the house door the doctor of the body.

"I suppose," said McGregor, "that you and I as concerns this infernal rascal are under orders from Penhallow and his wife.

I at least have the satisfaction of being paid--" "Oh, I am paid, Doctor," the clergyman smiled.
"Of course, any one and every one who serves that very efficient and positive saint, Mrs.Penhallow, is paid.

She's too terrifyingly good.

It must be--well, inconvenient at times.