You don't laugh at old age, Mr Forbes." And so the kind garrulous old man went on, talking about everything except Greek.

For that he had no enthusiasm.

Indeed, he did not know enough to have, by possibility, any feeling about it.

What he did know, however, he taught well, and very conscientiously.
This was the first time that Alec's thoughts had been turned towards a profession.

The more he thought about it the better he liked the idea of being a doctor; till at length, after one or two talks about it with Mr Fraser, he resolved, notwithstanding that the session was considerably advanced, to attend the anatomical course for the rest of it.