I shall not take it from the old woman," he said.

"It is more strange than the fact of a surgeon arranging to obtain a subject for dissection that our acquaintance should be formed out of it." "I am afraid you think me uncivil in showing my dislike to the notion.
But I did not mean to be." "Oh no, no." He looked at her, as he had done before, with puzzled interest.

"I cannot think, I cannot think," he murmured.

"Something bewilders me greatly." He still reflected and hesitated.

"Last night I sat up very late," he at last went on, "and on that account I fell into a little nap on that couch about half an hour ago.