"No, I'm not sick.

I just don't feel hungry, that's all." "Hum! Well, I've usually noticed that when a healthy man don't feel hungry at dinner time, 'specially in the huckleberry season, his healthiness is pretty shaky.

What does ail you, Mr.Ellery?
Got somethin' on your mind?
If you have, I'd heave it overboard.

Or you might unload it onto me and let me prescribe.

I've had consider'ble experience in that kind of doctorin'." But the answer was unsatisfactory.