"We can't do anything," Henry murmured. "Dunroon said he'd come in again in a short while. Perhaps if we were to get a nurse or somebody. There's sure to be a Nurses' Home near to. Can't we ring up somebody?"
He got hold of the telephone book and began to turn over the pages rapidly.
"What are you looking for?" Gilbert asked.
"That's no good. Let's send round to Dunroon's!..."
"He won't be there!"
"Some one'll be there. We'll ring 'em up!..."
Dr. Dunroon's secretary was there, and she knew exactly what to do. "Oh, very well," she said in a voice so calm that Gilbert felt reassured. "I'll send some one round as soon as possible!"
Ninian came down the stairs before they had finished telephoning to Dr. Dunroon's secretary.
"I'm going to fetch her husband," he whispered to Henry, and then he left them.