"We'll teach you."
"I don't care about it."
"You look sleepy, lad," said Dick.
"Yes, I feel so. It's strange. I didn't feel so when I came in."
"Oh, don't mind the boy's looks," said Jack. "Lay down on that settee, if you want to, boy."
Jasper felt so heavy and drowsy that he accepted the permission and stretched himself out, closing his eyes.
"Why am I so sleepy?" he thought, languidly. "I never was before, in the middle of the day, except when I was sick."
He listened at first to the conversation between the players, but gradually it sounded only like a confused hum, and at length he could not hear it at all.
He was fast asleep.
When this became clear through his heavy breathing, Dick turned to the younger man, and pointing to Jasper, asked: