“Home again, sir! I say, what will they think of you there? They won’t know you!”
“Not know me, Ned? Am I so much changed?”
“Changed, sir? What, don’t you know it?”
“I—I think I’m stronger, Ned, and grown a little.”
“Why, sir, you’re as strong and as big as me.”
“My cure, Jack!” said the doctor, shaking hands with him as they reached the old home. “I say, Meadows, what am I to charge for this?—No: I’m paid already in the sight of my old friend’s son.”
It’s rather a hard thing to do, but it is to be done. I mean for three people to shake hands at once. These three—Sir John, the doctor, and Jack Meadows—did in self-congratulation at being safe and sound at home.
It is done like this— No, you can find that out yourselves.