"I don't quite know—fit of some sort, I should say."
"Leave him to get over it then. Rain will bring him to. I'm going, I was a fool to stay, don't know why I did, except that you made such a point of it."
The other looked up, frowning. "Look here, Selbourne, what your quarrel is with this fellow I don't know, and don't want to; but I'm a doctor, and if he's the biggest blackguard under the sun, he's my patient now, and I don't leave him. You go if you like, but in common humanity order the Cape cart."
"I'll ... see ... him ... rotting first."
"See here, Richard Selbourne, I'm a good friend of yours, and I think I've shown it, haven't I? I wasn't in time, I know, for ... but that was not my fault, I came as quick as I could, and there was nothing to be done, but you know what I risked over signing the certificate as I did."
"I do, and you've Mary's and my eternal gratitude, Lees ... but——"
"Show it now, then, by fetching that cart."
"If you knew what I do, Lees, you'd leave him here to die."
The other laughed. "Don't be a fool, Selbourne," he said.
"Where do you propose to take him? If it's my house you're thinking of, you can save yourself the trouble of a journey, I warn you."