"Yes, we'll have a little tea.

I've heard every word you've been saying." It was that assertion on the part of the earl which always made Lady Julia so angry.

"You cannot have heard what I have been saying, Theodore, because I have said nothing," she would reply.

"But I should have heard it if you had," the earl would rejoin, snappishly.

On the present occasion neither Crofts nor Eames contradicted him, and he took his tea and swallowed it while still three parts asleep.
"If you'll allow me, my lord, I think I'll order my horse," said the doctor.
"Yes; horse--yes--" said the earl, nodding.
"But what are you to do, Eames, if I ride ?" said the doctor.
"I'll walk," whispered Eames, in his very lowest voice.
"What--what--what ?" said the earl, jumping up on his feet.