He was quite honestly incapable of supposing that his physician would presume to argue with him.
"You do not, very naturally, understand Lady Mary's disposition as well as I do," he said, almost graciously.

"She has been sheltered from anxiety, from trouble of every kind, since her childhood.

To me, more than a quarter of a century her senior, she seems, indeed, still almost a child." Dr.Blundell coloured.

"Yet she is the mother of a grown-up son," he said.
"Peter grown-up! Nonsense! A schoolboy." "Eighteen," said the doctor, shortly.

"You don't wish him sent for ?" "Most certainly not.