"Excuse me, doctor, but there is really no object in this.

This is the third time you've asked me the same thing.

" The celebrated doctor did not take offense.

"Nervous irritability," he said to the princess, when Kitty had left the room.

" However, I had finished..." And the doctor began scientifically explaining to the princess, as an exceptionally intelligent woman, the condition of the young princess, and concluded by insisting on the drinking of the waters, which were certainly harmless.