hand to feel my pulse. I had to drop my letter to comply.
“I wish to goodness there was something I could do for you,” he said. “Would you - would you care to see a doctor?”
I shook my head, and could have smiled at his visible relief.
“Then I’m going to prescribe for you,” he said with decision. “It’s the place that doesn’t agree with you, and it was I who brought you to the place; therefore it’s for me to get you out of it as quick as possible. Up you get, and I’ll drive you to the station myself!”
to be, I think that I never felt my loneliness as I did during the twenty-four hours which intervened between Rattray’s departure and my own. They dragged like wet days by the sea, and the effect was as depressing. I have seldom been at such a loss for something to do; and in my idleness I behaved like