Part 3 Chapter 6

'IT grips me,' Scobie said, 'like a vice.'

'And what do you do then?'

'Why nothing. I stay as still as I can until the pain goes.'

'How long does it last?'

'It's difficult to tell, but I don't think more than a minute.'

The stethoscope followed like a ritual. Indeed there was something clerical in all that Dr