I don't know quite what they mean; but you read the account and tell me what you think." With this parting injunction she bustled out through the surgery, and I followed to bid her a ceremonious adieu on the doorstep.

I watched her little figure tripping with quick, bird-like steps down Fetter Lane, and was about to turn back into the surgery when my attention was attracted by the evolutions of an elderly gentleman on the opposite side of the street.

He was a somewhat peculiar-looking man, tall, gaunt, and bony, and the way in which he carried his head suggested to the medical mind a pronounced degree of near sight and a pair of "deep" spectacle glasses.
Suddenly he espied me and crossed the road with his chin thrust forward and a pair of keen blue eyes directed at me through the centres of his spectacles.
"I wonder if you can and will help me," said he, with a courteous salute.

"I wish to call on an acquaintance, and I have forgotten his address.

It is in some court, but the name of that court has escaped me for the moment.