He seemed under no apprehension, though he must have known that his life, among these treacherous demons, depended on a hair; and he rattled on to his patients as if he were paying an ordinary professional visit in a quiet English family.

他似乎毫不担忧，尽管他必然知道，身处这些背信弃义的恶徒之间，自己的性命悬于一线；他仍与病人谈个不停，仿佛只是在一个安静的英国家庭里照常出诊。