“I know my physician’s credentials are considered more respectable – but truly, Miss Ettings, proper physicians have the strangest medical ideas. Their obsession with bleeding confuses me terribly. I have never known bleeding to improve a patient . . . though I suppose it certainly quiets them.” He considered this very seriously, and then added, “On that note, I might prescribe bleeding for Elias one of these days. But only because he could sometimes use quieting.”
