Please sit down; won't you have some coffee?" Levin stared at him with eyes that asked whether he was laughing at him; but the doctor had no notion of making fun of him.
"I know, I know," the doctor said, smiling; "I'm a married man myself; and at these moments we husbands are very much to be pitied.
I've a patient whose husband always takes refuge in the stables on such occasions.