Yes, I remember the doctor making house calls back in the 1960s. We lived in a tiny farming community. I think the doctor drove ten miles or more from the neighboring, larger town to make house calls in our tiny community. Our community didn’t have any medical office, so if people were in need of a hospital, it wasn’t too much of a drive to the hospital in the larger town.
Poor Puddles was actually concerned about Luann, until the last panel. Good ol’ Frank, not falling for Luann’s act. Girl, you could have had the dishwasher loaded in the time it took to do this histrionics act!
Well, that answers the question of whether Stef was in the room alone and faking it or not.