I'd like better than anything I know of to be your first regular patient.

It will always be something to boast about in years to come.

It will be splendid to say to people, 'Oh, yes, I am the first person that ever had her appendix removed by the celebrated Dr.Thorpe.' It will--" "But I have removed a great many," he said, carried away by her sprightly good humour.

"In my training days, so to speak." "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that," she cried, disappointed.

Then her face brightened: "Still, I suppose you had to learn just where the thing is.