CHAPTER XVI.
Sir Jasper Threlfall did not know how long it would be before Mr.
Feist could safely be discharged from the establishment in which Logotheti had so kindly placed him.

Dr.Bream said 'it was as bad a case of chronic alcoholism as he often saw.' What has grammar to do with the treatment of the nerves?
Mr.Feist said he did not want to be cured of chronic alcoholism, and demanded that he should be let out at once.

Dr.Bream answered that it was against his principles to discharge a patient half cured.

Mr.Feist retorted that it was a violation of personal liberty to cure a man against his will.

The physician smiled kindly at a view he heard expressed every day, and which the law shared, though it might not be very ready to support it.
Physically, Mr.Feist was afraid of Dr.Bream, who had played football for Guy's Hospital and had the complexion of a healthy baby and a quiet eye.