"You are extremely obliging. I begin to doubt whether I am really in my own house. In an hour, then, I will come. Where is my wife?"
"In her own room, sir, lying down; asleep, I believe."
"I will not disturb her. How about the registration, by-the-by? That must be seen to."
"Dr. Jedd has promised to attend to that, sir."
"Has Dr. Jedd been here?"
"He was here an hour ago."
"Very good. And he will see to that," muttered Mr. Sheldon thoughtfully.
The event for which he had been so long waiting seemed at the last a little sudden. It had shaken his nerves more than he had supposed it possible that they could be shaken.
He went to his dressing-room, and on this occasion made a very hasty toilet. The event had been tardy, and he had no time to lose in discounting it now that it had come to pass. He went from his dressing-room back to his study, took the jacket containing the policies of assurance and the will from the deed-box, and left the house.