"Ay?" said he. "I had been thinking rather the other way."
"You surprised me very much - with the one touch of your hair."
The doctor was silent.
"I should have thought - in my ignorance - several others more likely to have called for it."
"Thorold is the only one," said the doctor.
"How is it?"
"The injuries are internal and complicated; and beyond reach."
The doctor had been washing his hands, and I was now washing mine; and with my face so turned away from him, I went on.
"He does not seem to suffer much."
"Doesn't he?" said the doctor.