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Dr. Merritt had telephoned Mrs. Knapp that he was going to make some very special tests of her husband's condition that afternoon, tests which might be conclusive as to the possibility of recovery. He had chosen Sunday, he told her, because he wished her to be at home. He tried to make his voice sound weighty and warning, and he knew that he had succeeded when, on arriving at the house, he found Mrs. Farnham there, with a very sober face, twisting her handkerchief nervously in her hands.
The two women looked at him in silent anxiety as he came in. He asked with an impenetrable professional manner to have his patient's chair rolled into the next room. "It is always better to make those nerve-reflex tests in perfect quiet," he explained.