In your position I should work as I never had done before.' 'Because you are the kind of man who is roused by necessity.

I am overcome by it.

My nature is feeble and luxurious.

I never in my life encountered and overcame a practical difficulty.' 'Yes; when you got the work at the hospital.' 'All I did was to write a letter, and chance made it effective.' 'My view of the case, Reardon, is that you are simply ill.' 'Certainly I am; but the ailment is desperately complicated.

Tell me: do you think I might possibly get any kind of stated work to do?
Should I be fit for any place in a newspaper office, for instance ?' 'I fear not.