It trembled just a little.
"Not quite so firm as it was twenty years ago," he remarked, with a slight depression in his voice.
"But the sight is clearer and the skill greater," said Doctor Angier.
"I don't know about the sight." returned Doctor Hillhouse.

"I'm afraid that is no truer than the hand." "The inner sight, I mean, the perception that comes from long-applied skill," said Doctor Angier.

"That is something in which you have the advantage of younger men." Doctor Hillhouse made no reply to this, but sat like one in deep and, perplexed thought for a considerable time.
"I must see Doctor Kline and go over the case with him more carefully," he remarked at length.

"I shall then be able to see with more clearness what is best.

The fact that I feel so averse to operating myself comes almost as a warning; and if no change should occur in my feelings, I shall, with the consent of the family, transfer the knife to Doctor Kline.".