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Again, he is stressing that he was a bachelor and to add to it he
was also a doctor. He thought that he had a lot of value and that is
why he wanted to look handsome.

I got up, paced up and down the room. Then another lovely thought
struck me. I would marry. I would get married to a woman doctor
who had plenty of money and a good medical practice. She had to
be fat; for a valid reason - If I made some silly mistake and needed
to run away she should not be able to run after me and catch me!

paced: walked
valid: logical, justifiable

He got up from his chair and started walking up and down in the
room and then he decided on one more thing. He decided to marry
a woman doctor, one who had lots of money and a good medical
practice. Further the doctor thought that he would marry a fat girl.
For that he had a logical reason also. He reasoned that if
sometime, he makes some mistake and his wife chases him in
anger to hit him she will not be able to run fast and catch him if she
would be fat.

With such thoughts in my mind I resumed my seat in the chair in
front of the table. There were no more sounds from above.
Suddenly there came a dull thud as if a rubber tube had fallen to
the ground ... surely nothing to worry about.

Thinking all these things, the doctor again sat down on the chair.
Now, the sound had stopped but all of a sudden, something fell
down making the sound of a ‘thud’. It felt like some rubber tube had
fallen and the doctor did not bother about it.