How he must be cursing me! You know how peevish he is." Miss Judson nodded, with a perfect expression of contrition and humility, as if she knew all about it, although, in reality, she knew only all about her employer and had never heard till that moment of his engagement at eleven-thirty.
"Doctor Hadley's just across the hall," Doctor Emory explained to Daughtry.

"It won't take me five minutes.

He and I have a disagreement.
He has diagnosed the case as chronic appendicitis and wants to operate.

I have diagnosed it as pyorrhea which has infected the stomach from the mouth, and have suggested emetine treatment of the mouth as a cure for the stomach disorder.

Of course, you don't understand, but the point is that I've persuaded Doctor Hadley to bring in Doctor Granville, who is a dentist and a pyorrhea expert.