There I told them, in the plainest words I could find, exactly what I have told you.

Doctor Dormann behaved like a gentleman.

He said, 'Let me see the lady, and speak to her myself, before the new remedy is tried.' As for the other, what do you think he did?
Walked out of the house (the old brute!) and declined any further attendance on the patient.

And who do you think followed him out of the house, David, when I sent for Madame Fontaine?
Another old brute--Mother Barbara!" After what I had seen myself of the housekeeper's temper on the previous evening, this last piece of news failed to surprise me.

To be stripped of her authority as nurse in favor of a stranger, and that stranger a handsome lady, was an aggravation of the wrong which Mother Barbara had contemplated, when she threatened us with the alternative of leaving the house.
"Well," Mr.Engelman resumed, "Doctor Dormann asked his questions, and smelt and tasted the medicine, and with Madame Fontaine's full approval took away a little of it to be analyzed.