'Pity you aren't always as dutiful as that.'
'Dutiful!' I shrieked. 'Oh, what a word,' and so we parted coldly after all.
CHAPTER IX
And the doctor's verdict is 'Two days in bed and bromide. First dose now.'
'I'll stay in bed,' said Ross, with the air of a man conferring a great favour, 'I'll not take drugs.'
'I'll get it down,' said Brown to the doctor, as he saw him to the car, 'somehow,' he added grimly.
'Sam,' I inquired, 'how are you going to get it down?'
'Can't imagine, miss. After last night he won't stand much. Well, it was a bit thick.'
'Sam, do you think if your knee gave out and it hurt you to keep standing when you argued, that it might have weight?'
'Can but try, miss.'