for instance … send … your patient … at once, without delay” (the words “at once, without delay,” the doctor uttered with an almost wrathful sternness that made the captain start) “to Syracuse, the change to the new be-ne-ficial climatic conditions might possibly effect—”
“To Syracuse!” cried the captain, unable to grasp what was said.
“Syracuse is in Sicily,” Kolya jerked out suddenly in explanation.
The doctor looked at him.
“Sicily! your Excellency,” faltered the captain, “but you’ve seen”—he spread out his hands, indicating his surroundings—“mamma and my family?”
“N—no, Sicily is not the place for the family, the family should go to Caucasus in the early spring … your daughter must go to the Caucasus, and your wife … after a course of the waters in the Caucasus for her rheumatism … must be sent straight to Paris to the mental specialist Lepelletier; I