, but it is all deadly lively, not that I saw much of it,
for we only got down from Schwarenbach on Monday, and they kept me in
bed all the two next days; but Jock and Evelyn hate it awfully.
Indeed Jock is so down in the mouth altogether I don't know what to
make of him, and just when the German doctors say the treatment makes
people particularly brisk and lively."
"Perhaps what makes a German lively makes an Englishman grave,"
sagely observed Babie.
"Jock grave must be a strange sight," said the Colonel; "I am afraid
he can't be recovering properly."
"The doctor thinks he is," said John; "but then he doesn't know the
nature of the Skipjack. But," he added, in a low voice, "that night
was enough to make any one grave, and it was much the worst to Jock,
because he kept his senses almost all the time, and was a good deal
hurt besides to begin with. His sprain is still so bad that he has
to be carried upstairs and to go to the baths in a chair."
"And do you think," said the Colonel, "that this young lord is going
to stay on all this time in this dull place for the sake of an utter
stranger?".
"Jock and Evelyn were always great friends at Eton," said John. "Then
my uncle did something, I don't know what, that Medlicott is grateful
for, and they have promised to see Armine through this illness.
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