"I've thought it out sideways and backwards.

It's Kate or old Joe.

Which is the most important ?" The doctor straightened in the chair, polished his glasses, and peered once more at the cowpuncher.
"You are quite sure, also, that the return of this man, this strange wanderer, might help Mr.Cumberland back to health ?" "I am, all right.

He's sure wrapped up in Whistlin' Dan." "What is the nature of their relations; what makes him so oddly dependent upon the other ?" "I dunno, doc.

It's got us all fooled.