"Does this look like the prescription ?" "Yes, of course.

It is the prescription." "I'm afraid not.

Come and look." Esther seized the paper eagerly and saw--a neatly written recipe for salad dressing! Hot and cold with mortification, she stared at it blankly.

"I have been nicely fooled," she said in a low voice.
"Am I permitted to smile, or would it hurt your feelings ?" "It is not at all funny! Of course the real prescription has been removed.

She must have suspected.