"Does she really want to see the doctor immediately ?" "That's what they told me, ma'am," said the boy, looking about him at the books and the furniture.

"They told me that she was took bad, and that I must come here first to tell the doctor to come right away, and if he wasn't at home to leave that message." "How did you come ?" asked Mrs.Tolbridge; "on horseback ?" "No, ma'am; with a wagon." "You could have come a great deal quicker without the wagon," said she.
"Oh, yes, but then I've got to stop at the store going back." "That will do," said Mrs.Tolbridge; "you can go now and attend to your other business." The doctor was quietly looking into the fire, and as his wife turned to him he gave a little snort.
"I was just beginning to get up enough energy," he remarked, "to think of putting on my slippers." "Well, put them on," said she, in a very decided tone.
"No," replied the doctor, "that will not do; of course I must go to her." "You mustn't do anything of the kind!" exclaimed Mrs.Tolbridge, her eyes sparkling.

"How many times by night and by day has that woman called you away on a fool's errand?
It is likely as not that there is nothing more the matter with her than there is with me.

She has no right to worry the life out of you in this way.

She ought to have gone to heaven long ago." "You shouldn't talk of my patients in that way, Kitty," said the doctor; "and in the opinion of a good many of her neighbors the old lady is not bound for heaven." "I don't care where she is going, but one thing is certain: you are not going to her this afternoon.