“Gittit.” He thrust a typed list into her hand. “How much you weigh?”

“I don’t know.”

“Yah don’t know?

“Somewhere about a hundred and fifty, I suppose.”

“Yah suppose. Grmph!” The exclamation was replete with contempt. “Come into the shop.”

She followed him into a big airy room flooded with overhead light, and filled with all sorts of mechanism. Obedient to a gesture she stepped on the scales. Mr. Dunne busied himself with a careful adjustment.

“You’ll strip a hunner’n fifty-two,” he declared.

Darcy vaguely felt as if she were being accused of murder. She felt even worse when the iron-faced Mr. Dunne made an entry in a little notebook.

“Will I?” she said faintly.

“Not long,” retorted the trainer.