The butler appeared, having heard the inquiry from below. He explained that Mr. Prockter, after the song, had come to him and asked where he could lie down, as he was conscious of a tendency to faint. The butler had indicated Mr. Ollerenshaw's room as the only masculine room available.
"Go and ask him how he feels," Helen commanded.
Fritz obeyed, and returned with the message that Mr. Prockter had "one of his attacks," and desired his mother.
"But he can't have his mother," said Helen. "She's at Nottingham. He told me so himself. He must be delirious." And she laughed.
"No, her isn't," James put in. "Her's at wum" (home).
"How do you know, uncle?"
"I know," said James. "Her'd better be sent for."
And she was sent for.