No further responsibility lay upon me, and, as it was practically certain that I had seen and heard the last of Mr.Graves and his mysterious household, I dismissed the case from my mind.

At the next corner Stillbury and I parted to go our respective ways; and my attention was soon transferred from the romance of crime to the realities of epidemic influenza.
The plethora of work in Dr.Stillbury's practice continued longer than I had bargained for.

Day after day went by and still found me tramping the dingy streets of Kennington or scrambling up and down narrow stairways; turning in at night dead tired, or turning out half awake to the hideous jangle of the night bell.
It was very provoking.

For months I had resisted Thorndyke's persuasion to give up general practice and join him.

Not from lack of inclination, but from a deep suspicion that he was thinking of my wants rather than his own; that his was a charitable rather than a business proposal.