'Then, sir, you thought wrong. We are no longer friends; we do not speak.'
'What has occasioned this?'
Nanspian looked down. He was ashamed to mention the red spider; so he made no reply.
'Well! and what is the summons to be made out for?'
'For giving me a stroke of the apoplexy.'
'I do not understand.'
'You must know,' said Hillary, lowering his voice, 'that I have a notion Mrs. Veale is a witch; and when Langford and I fell out she came meddling with her witchcraft. She came as a White Hare.'
'As a what?'
'As a White Hare,' answered Hillary, drawing forth a kerchief and blowing his nose, and in the act of blowing fixing the lawyer over the top of it with his eyes, and saying through it, 'My Larry saw her.'
Mr. Physick uttered a sigh of disappointment, and said ironically, 'This is not a case for me. You must consult the White Witch in Exeter.'