"Pateley!" said her husband. "Did you have any talk with him? What did he say?"
"Hardly anything," said Rachel. "He was surprised to see me, and asked how long we had been here, and if he might come and see us. That was all."
"That was all," echoed Rendel, again with an inward shiver. "Coming to see us, is he?"
That encounter for the moment he must at any cost avoid.
"Frank, I wonder if we must go on staying here?" Rachel said.
"Of course we must," Rendel replied, trying to pull himself together again. "Dr. Morgan said that this was the very best place for you to come to, and that the waters would do you all the good in the world."
"I wonder if we need," said Rachel. "I am sure it is the kind of thing you hate."
"It is not for very long, after all," said Rendel, trying to smile.
He was gradually regaining possession of himself, but was still afraid to trust himself to utter any but the most commonplace and ordinary sentences.