Doctors are unpleasant indeed, and The Shadow is very selective about which ones he trusts. His recent choice of physician isn't even technically a doctor, but a nurse, yet one he trusts more than anyone else in the Clinics. He notes the paleness and the posture without comment.
"I have expensive tastes. I spent a long time impersonating a very wealthy man, and it ruined me." He smiles faintly, but ruefully, the expression coming through the words. "He always preferred bourbon, though." The past tense is not for Lamont Cranston's current state of being, although he has no illusions about his former agent's failing health. The past tense is because due to health complications, Cranston was restricted from drinking quite a few years ago.
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Date: 2009-10-13 01:20 am (UTC)"I have expensive tastes. I spent a long time impersonating a very wealthy man, and it ruined me." He smiles faintly, but ruefully, the expression coming through the words. "He always preferred bourbon, though." The past tense is not for Lamont Cranston's current state of being, although he has no illusions about his former agent's failing health. The past tense is because due to health complications, Cranston was restricted from drinking quite a few years ago.