"Is that all?"
"For the present. We needn't go beyond that. I shall soon get used to listening instead of talking. Maybe I'll grow wiser for it."
"That wasn't all they told you?"
Nathan looked round and shut the door which stood ajar behind them.
"There's no hiding anything from you that you want to find out. As a matter of fact, I'm booked. I know it. 'Tis only a question of—of months—few or many. They give me time to put things as straight—as straight as I can."
"So like as not they lie. You'll do better to go off to London while you may, and get the best opinion up there."
"I would, if 'twas only to pleasure you. But that's no use now."
"Can you let down your food easy?"
Nathan shook his head.
"I dare not eat in company no more," he said; "it's here." He put his hand to his throat and then drew it down.