"That was what he used to say, sir, that he wanted to feel cut off from everybody and everything."
"You have seen the body?"
"Yes, sir."
"Did you notice anything remarkable about it?"
"He was more like he was some thirty years ago, sir."
"Rejuvenated in fact."
"I beg pardon, sir?"
"He seemed to have become suddenly a much younger man?" explained
Malcolm Sage.
"Yes, sir. I've been with him over thirty years, and he looked very much as he did then, except, of course, that his hair remained grey."
"Apart from the food not being taken in, you noticed nothing else that struck you as strange?" queried Malcolm Sage.