This seemed to him quite the flattest
lunch he had ever sat out with her, while, as for the people round
about, he thought he had never seen a duller lot. Perhaps, after all,
he had been a little hasty in shutting up the devil so unceremoniously,
but it made him laugh to think that the fellow would get no lunch
anyway and that his stock of cigars would hardly last him through the
day. "And at any rate," he argued, "the rascal will do no mischief
to-day."
He drove Kitty to the King's New Hospital when the stupid meal was
over--she was visiting some old people there--and while he waited for
her, he met Dr. Lanfry himself and had a little chat with that
benevolent old gentleman. Naturally their talk concerned the hospital
and he was not a little surprised to find the worthy doctor altogether
in an optimistic mood.
"Yes," he said, "we shall have no need of these costly places. Disease
is disappearing rapidly from our midst. I see the day coming when men
and women will go untroubled by any ailment from the cradle to the
grave. In some ways, I confess the world will be poorer.
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