"D'you mean he's getting better?"
"Slowly. He's taking food more easily. He was undoubtedly better this morning. I haven't seen him since, of course."
"But the matron seemed to think----" He stopped, for the dimples began to reappear.
"Matron always fears the worst, you know," said Nurse Faulkner, not without irony.
"Does she?"
The matron had never held out hope to Edwin; and he had unquestioningly accepted her opinion. It had not occurred to him that the matron of a hospital could be led astray by her instinctive unconscious appetite for gloom and disaster.
The nurse nodded.
"Then you think he'll pull through?"
"I'm pretty sure he will. But of course I've not seen the doctor--I mean since the first night."
"I'm awfully glad."