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THE DENTIST'S IN FINSBURY SQUARE
The gong fixed in the door frame sounded.
"Is the boss in?"
"Yes, sir."
"I want a tooth out."
"Yes, sir. Will you take a seat a moment?"
The boy handed the visitor a newspaper as he spoke, and then entered the inner room. To his employer he said:
"Gent wants a tooth extracted, sir."
He had attained the word "extracted" by diligent practice. It had been hard work, but he got home with it at last.
There was a hope prevailing in the dentist's breast that in time the boy would be able to say "gentleman"; at present there were no indications of the realization of that hope beyond the word's first syllable.
The dentist was wearily glancing out of the window. He looked very down in the mouth.
That is said of him metaphorically, as, actually, it is part of the business of a dentist to do that sort of thing. That is patent.
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