The scandal, on the whole, tended to the point that Dr.West had misbehaved himself.

In what way?
What had he done?
Had he personally ill-treated them--sworn at them--done anything else unbecoming a gentleman?
And which had been the sufferer?
The old lady in her widow's cap?
or the sickly daughter?
or the other one?
Could he have carelessly supplied wrong medicine; sent to them some arsenic instead of Epsom Salts, and so thrown them into fright, and danger, and anger?
Had he scaled the privet hedge in the night, and robbed the garden of its cabbages?
What, in short, was it that he had done?
Deerham spoke out pretty broadly, as to the main facts, although the rumoured details were varied and obscure.

It declared that some of Dr.West's doings at Chalk Cottage had not been orthodox, and that discovery had followed.
There are two classes of professional men upon whom not a taint should rest; who ought, in familiar phrase, to keep their hands clean--the parson of the parish, and the family doctor.

Other people may dye themselves in Warren's jet if they like; but let as much as a spot get on him who stands in the pulpit to preach to us, or on him who is admitted to familiar intercourse with our wives and children, and the spot grows into a dark thundercloud.

What's the old saying?
"One man may walk in at the gate, while another must not look over the hedge." It runs something after that fashion.