And while I smothered the paroxysm with all haste, he sat calm and patient, leaning on his desk, and looking like a physician watching with the eye of science an expected and fully understood crisis in a patient's malady.
Y mientras yo me entregaba a los paroxismos de mi dolor, él, sentado ante el pupitre, me contemplaba como un médico pueda contemplar las reacciones de un paciente.