The account at the bank was easily accomplished, and with over a thousand pounds to his credit, I felt a lot safer and some of my worry left me. However, this was not a permanent solution, and so I paid a visit to my good friend, and lawyer, Utterson.

My knock at the door was answered, to my surprise, almost immediately by the familiar face of Utterson's clerk, Mister Guest, who it seemed was in the process of leaving. Behind him, I saw the man I had come to see, who greeted me. 'Doctor Jekyll, what a surprise. It has been too long since last I saw you.'

We both bid farewell to Mister Guest and I was ushered into Utterson's drawing room where he ordered tea for us and we started to talk. It had been some months since we had last seen each other and Utterson regaled me with the many entertaining stories from his legal practice of the incidences that had occurred since I had seen him last. I reciprocated with tales from my recent patients and with recent discoveries such as Finlay's association of the mosquito with yellow fever, or the great leaps in preventing hospital disease by boiling the instruments and using Lister's carbolic sprays. It was such a good time for science.