You smoke extravagantly, don't you ?" "Yes." "You take coffee immoderately ?" "Yes." "And some tea ?" "Yes." "You eat all kinds of things that are dissatisfied with each other's company ?" "Yes." "You drink two hot Scotches every night ?" "Yes." "Very well, there you see what I have to contend against.

We can't make progress the way the matter stands.

You must make a reduction in these things; you must cut down your consumption of them considerably for some days." "I can't, doctor." "Why can't you." "I lack the will-power.

I can cut them off entirely, but I can't merely moderate them." He said that that would answer, and said he would come around in twenty-four hours and begin work again.

He was taken ill himself and could not come; but I did not need him.