The boy is doing very well.

No, I was not up all night.

I had some hours' sleep on the big sofa." "Which doesn't count for much," said his wife.
"It counts for some hours," he replied, "and Mrs.Pardell did not sleep at all." Dr.Tolbridge, a man of moderate height, and compactly built, with some touches of gray in his full, short beard, and all the light of youth in his blue eyes, had been for years the leading physician in and about Thorbury.

He lived on the outskirts of the little town, but the lines of his practice extended in every direction into the surrounding country.
The doctor's wife was younger than he was; she had a high opinion of him, and had learned to diagnose him, mentally, morally, and physically, with considerable correctness.

It may be asserted, in fact, that the doctor seldom made a diagnosis of a patient as exact as those she made of him.
But then it must be remembered that she had only one person to exert her skill upon, while he had many.
The Tolbridge house was one of the best in the town, but the family was small.