"Now give me as minute a psychological study of the former and actual
Henry Chichester as you can."
Malling complied with this request as lucidly and tersely as he could, wasting no words.
"Any unusual change in his outward man since you knew him two years ago?" asked the professor, when he had finished.
Malling mentioned the question as to the curate's eyes and mouth which had risen in his mind, and added:
"But the character of the man is so changed that it may have suggestioned me into feeling as if there were physical change in him, too."
"More than would be inevitable in any man in a couple of years. And now as to his digestive organs."
"Good heavens!" exclaimed Malling.
The apparent vagaries of his companion very seldom surprised him, but this time he was completely taken aback.
"Are they what they were? Assuming, on your part, a knowledge of what they were."
"I don't know either in what condition they are now, or in what condition they were once."