If you want to kill yourself I won't stand in your way.

Good morning." Before Oscar recovered from his astonishment, the doctor had reached the entry.

Addressing his mother who was following him, he said: "Call him back, mother--tell him I won't do so again--call him back." The doctor heard the message, and returned.
"I will consent to prescribe for you only on one condition," he said; "and that is, that you will agree to do precisely as I tell you to.
You must take the medicines I order, and eat only what I tell you to, or I will have nothing more to do with you.

Do you agree to that ?" "Yes, sir," replied Oscar.
The doctor resumed his seat, and felt the patient's pulse.

He had not yet got entirely over his irritation, and, turning to Mrs.Preston, he remarked: "If the patient was a little stronger, my first prescription would be a smart external application of birch or ratan; but, as it is, we shall have to omit that for the present.