"What can have put such an absurd notion into your head?" demanded Felix brusquely. "Has anybody been talking nonsense? Dr. Rotherbotham—?"
"Sissie always sends me out when he comes."
"Mrs. Crofton—?"
"O no."
"Or Mr. Kelly?"
"No."
"You are sure?"
Lettice flushed painfully. "He didn't, indeed. Nobody has. It is only—only something I overheard Sissie say. Something I was not meant to hear. Ought I to repeat it to you? She seemed to think she—she—could not—ever be well again—"
"She meant she could not be quite as she used to be. Besides, Sissie is nervous. Sick people always are. That is nothing."
"She said—Dr. Rotherbotham had told her—"