"It's pretty, but like most pretty places, it's unhealthy.
Nature can seldom be good and beautiful at the same time." The doctor was somewhat of a philosopher.
"Your little girl needs the hills.

In fact you all do.

Your wife isn't half the woman she was since you took her into the valley.

You don't look any better for it, either.

No, sir, believe me, beauty's all very well, but it's not good to live with--And, by the way, have you had your well looked at lately?
That valley is just a beautiful sewer for the drainage of the hills; a very market-town for all the germs and bacilli of the district." And the doctor laughed, as, curiously enough, people always do at jests about bacilli.
But when he looked at Wonder, he took a more serious view of bacilli.
"You must have your well looked to at once," he said.