“Are you rested now?”
“Indeed yes!”
“You are dreadfully thin.”
“I always am. I'll pick up a little when I get back to work.”
“David, I want you to go to work now.”
“Can you spare me?”
“Haven't we done well these last few days?”
“I can't tell you how well.”
“Then please go gather everything you need to fill orders except the big bed, and by that time maybe you could take another week off, and I could go to the hill top and on the lake. I'm so anxious to put my feet on the earth. They feel so dead.”
“Are your feet well rubbed to draw down the circulation?”