But such happy evenings as this had been do not often occur in anybody's life--it is their unexpectedness which gives them the charm which lingers in one's memory.
Jim helped Frank on several occasions after that, but Dora did not join them. She was out, Frank supposed, with Mr Jefferson. Such announcements filled Jim with forebodings which were to be realised only too speedily.
One evening, when Jim had been established in his new surgery about three weeks, Koko looked in.
"Hullo, Koko!"
"Hullo, Jim!"
Koko sat down and glanced about him.
"Business improving, Jim?"
"Things are looking better, thanks, old man."
"And as to No. 9?"
"Cold generally; variable breezes," was Jim's weather report.