His little idiosyncrasies will turn in witness against him later on." She shook her head in disbelief.
"Your practice and your theory do not agree," she said.
There was a little pause; then she turned to him gravely.
"Have you been vaccinated ?" she asked.
"In the days of my baptism, wherein I was made--" "No doubt," she interrupted impatiently, "but since?
Have you had it done lately ?" "Just before I came away from England.

My tailor urged it so strongly.
He said that he had made outfits for many gents going to Africa, and they had all made their wills and been vaccinated.

For reasons which are too painful to dwell upon in these pages I could not make a will, so I was enthusiastically vaccinated." "And have you all the medicines you will require?
Did you really want that quinine ?" There was a practical, common-sense anxiety in the way she asked these questions which made him answer gravely.
"All, thanks.

We did not really want the quinine, but we can do with it.
Oscard is our doctor; he is really very good.

He looks it all up in a book, puts all the negative symptoms on one side, and the positive on the other--adds them all up, then deducts the smaller from the larger, and treats what is left of the patient accordingly." She laughed, more with the view of pleasing him than from a real sense of the ludicrous.
"I do not believe," she said, "that you know the risks you are running into.