His pulse, by this time, had fallen back to a quiet, slow beat, and his skin was moist and cool.

Not a symptom of fever or agitation about him.
Finding that neither of us answered him, he turned to me, and began talking of the extraordinary nature of his case, and asking my advice about the future course of medical treatment to which he ought to subject himself.

I said the matter required careful thinking over, and suggested that I should send him a prescription a little later.

He told me to write it at once, as he would most likely be leaving Doncaster in the morning before I was up.

It was quite useless to represent to him the folly and danger of such a proceeding as this.