The doctor no longer practiced, had retired, the landlord believed, but he took a few private patients here the good fellow tapped his forehead knowingly "balmy ones! 
The landlord knew the doctor fairly well.
mnli hypothesis: The landlord knew the doctor fairly well. premise: The doctor no longer practiced, had retired, the landlord believed, but he took a few private patients here the good fellow tapped his forehead knowingly "balmy ones! 