"Never mind that."
"I'm going to study harder too."
"Not just yet. I shouldn't bother my head about such things now, Peter John. Wait till you are up and around before you do that."
"I'm afraid that'll be a long time."
"No. Oh no, it won't," said Will cheerily. "You'll be all right before you know it."
Peter John shook his head and was about to reply, when Mott entered the room and at the same time the physician also came. The latter glanced keenly at his patient, and then said to the visitors, "That's enough this time, boys. You'd better cut it short now and come again."
Will and Mott at once departed after bidding Peter John good-bye, and when they were out on the sidewalk Mott began to laugh.
"What's struck you? I don't see anything so very funny," said Will irritated by his companion's manner.
"Peter John has made a clean breast of it."
"What of it?"