Our worthy doctor here informs us you will soon get strong again, and become more of a tax on my hospitality than you have yet been.

No doubt, after your illness, you'll have the appetite of an ostrich.

Well, in one way, that will be fortunate, since we are living, as you may see, in a somewhat Homeric fashion.

_Carrambo_! you will be deeming my manners quite as rude as the roughest of Homer's heroes.

I am forgetting to introduce you to one of whom you've heard me speak.