"Quite light-heartedly. He has now for some weeks: such a change for him."
"H'm!"
"Why do you ask?" said Mrs Devitt.
"I saw Pritchett when I was in town yesterday."
"Harold's doctor?" queried Miss Spraggs.
"He told me he'd seen Harold last week."
"At Swanage?"
"Harold had wired for him. I wondered if anythin' was up."
"What should be 'up,' as you call it, beyond his being either better or worse?"
"That's what I want to know."