You will make an infidel of me by your inquiries." Helen laughed, and staring at him, called him a bear, and told him he ought to live in a hospital, where he would have plenty of sick women to tease.
"I should find few like you there." He chirruped to his horse, but checked it again, put out his head and called, "Keep your feet warm, wont you?
And read Shakespeare." Helen said that Dr.White had been crossed in love, and long after had married a deformed woman--for science's sake, perhaps.

His talent was well known out of Rosville; but he was unambitious and eccentric.
"He is interested in you, Cass, that I see.

Are you quite well?
What about the change you spoke of ?" "Dr.White has theories; he has attached one to me.

Nature has adjusted us nicely, he thinks, with fine strings; if we laugh too much, or cry too long, a knot slips somewhere, which 'all the king's men' can't take up again.

Perhaps he judges women by his deformed wife.