Miss Scarborough said a good deal about her brother, and declared him to be much better.

"Of course you know, Augustus, that Sir William Brodrick was down here for two days." "Only fancy," replied he, "what one has to pay for two days of Sir William Brodrick in the country!" "What can it matter ?" said the generous spinster.
"It matters exactly so many hundred pounds; but no one will begrudge it if he does so many hundred pounds' worth of good." "It will show, at any rate, that we have had the best advice," said the lady.
"Yes, it will show;--that is exactly what people care about.

What did Sir William say ?" Then during the first half of dinner a prolonged reference was made to Mr.Scarborough's maladies, and to Sir William's opinion concerning them.

Sir William had declared that Mr.Scarborough's constitution was the most wonderful thing that he had ever met in his experience.

In spite of the fact that Mr.Scarborough's body was one mass of cuts and bruises and faulty places, and that nothing would keep him going except the wearing of machinery which he was unwilling to wear, yet the facilities for much personal enjoyment were left to him, and Sir William declared that, if he would only do exactly as he were told, he might live for the next five years.