I've come back without what I went for, but I must just grin and bear it." He shrugged his shoulders and gave a great sigh.
"Perhaps you'll find what you went for here," returned the Young Doctor meaningly.
"There's a lot here--enough to make a man think life worth while"-- inside the room the wife shrank at the words, for she could hear all--"but just the same I'm not thinking the thing I went to look for is hereabouts." "You never know your luck," was the reply.

"'Ask and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.'" The long face blazed up with humour again.

"Do you mean that I haven't asked you yet ?" Crozier remarked, with a quizzical look, which had still that faint hope against hope which is a painful thing for a good man's eyes to see.
The Young Doctor laid a hand on Crozier's arm.

"No, I didn't mean that, patient.

I'm in that state when every penny I have is out to keep me from getting a fall.