“Oh, never mind! Don’t stop to pick them up.”
Glyddyr paid no heed, but nervously collected the pack together, rose with them in his hands, and then, watching the doctor as he wrote out the directions on a label, involuntarily, and as if naturally from feeling the cards in his hands, began to shuffle them slowly.
The doctor smiled.
“You play a bit, I see.”
“Oh! yes, of course,” said Glyddyr, hastily setting down the pack. “Confoundedly stupid of me to drop them.”
“Nonsense! Very unprofessional to have them here, eh?”
“You play, then?” said Glyddyr, repeating the doctor’s query.
“Not often. No one to play with. A game now and then would do you good.”
“Yes, yes,” said Glyddyr, eagerly. “Come on board. I’m very dull there.”
“Most happy if you’ll have a game here sometimes.”