Don't forget I said to walk down." And when the examination was concluded, that afternoon, the doctor informed Bibbs that the result was much too satisfactory to be pleasing.
"Here's a new 'situation' for a one-act farce," he said, gloomily, to his next patient when Bibbs had gone.

"Doctor tells a man he's well, and that's his death sentence, likely.

Dam' funny world!" Bibbs decided to walk home, though Gurney had not instructed him upon this point.

In fact, Gurney seemed to have no more instructions on any point, so discouraging was the young man's improvement.

It was a dingy afternoon, and the smoke was evident not only to Bibbs's sight, but to his nostrils, though most of the pedestrians were so saturated with the smell they could no longer detect it.