It was furnished in a more modern way than the other rooms at Wyndfell Hall.

"There's a bath-room off this room.

That's why Varick, who's a good-natured chap, gave it me.

He knows I have a great fear of catching a chill," whispered Mr.Tapster.
"We'd better go down," said the doctor at last.
"D'you think so?
But the noise has stopped, and, after all, it is no business of ours." Dr.Panton did not tell the other what was really in his mind.

This was that the man who had now become so curiously quiet might unwittingly have done a mischief to himself.