CHAPTER SEVEN“It’s a real miracle, an absolute miracle!” the doctor exclaimed. “I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that this new ointment that John has found has been so successful.”
“It certainly has,” Elizabeth agreed.
She was sitting on her bed and. as it was such a lovely day, she had dressed before the doctor arrived, the only exception being her injured leg which was bare.
He looked at it again and exclaimed,
“All I can tell you, John, is that if you take it round the world they will call you a witch doctor everywhere it is used!”
John laughed.
The doctor then walked towards the door, saying,
“I cannot stop here talking for the simple reason that Mrs. Bassett’s baby may arrive at any moment and I have to be there. You can join me later, John, if you like and you know where I
