If, instead of that address, he had accidentally found somebody else's secret, what right had he--a man of honour and a gentleman--to use it, even if by doing so he could redress one of the greatest grievances in Grandcourt?
He thrust the picture back into the desk, and wished from the bottom of his heart he had never seen it.

Mechanically he finished tidying the room, and clearing away to the adjoining study as much as possible of the superfluous furniture.

Then with his own hands he lit the fire and carried out the various instructions of the doctor as to the steaming of the air in the room and the preparation of the nourishment for the invalid.
Branscombe woke once during the interval and asked hoarsely, "What bell was that ?" Then, without waiting for an answer, he said,-- "All right, all right, I'll get up in a second," and relapsed into his restless sleep.
Mrs Phillips did not return till eight o'clock; and the doctor arrived almost at the same time.
"Has he taken anything ?" he inquired.
"Scarcely anything; he can hardly swallow." "You'll have a night with him, I fancy.

Keep the temperature of the room up to sixty, and see he doesn't throw off his clothes.

How old is he--eighteen ?--a great overgrown boy, six feet one or two, surely.