It was upon this latter account that the doctor always observed him with peculiar interest, for had not Mrs.Sykes declared that if he should only be called in once to prescribe for John MacTavish's stomach his future in Coombe was secure?
"Doctor Parker is doing him just no good at all," she reported.

"So keep an eye on him.

If he looks especially dour it's a good sign." "Would you say that he looks especially 'dour' ?" whispered Callandar to Willits.
"I should.

Why ?" "Oh, nothing--only it's a good sign! Hush!" When the minister has entered the pulpit at Knox Church there is a moment during which you may bow your head, or, if you consider this popish, you may cover your face with your gloved hand.

It is a moment of severe quiet.