He pronounced it needless to send for a doctor: nature, he was sure, would manage best, left to herself. He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while.
Il déclara inutile d'envoyer chercher un médecin; il était sûr, disait-il, que, livrée à elle-même, la nature n'en agirait que mieux.