She might have been an ancient woman responding with humility at the church door to the patronage of the parson.

"The more I take the better I feel.

I'm ordered by the doctors to keep all the while in the air and go in for plenty of exercise.

It keeps up my general health, you know, and if that goes on improving as it has lately done everything will soon be all right.

All that was the matter with me before--and always; it was too reckless!--was that I neglected my general health.