Nothing so outrageous as that creature we just saw, but still noticeably cross-eyed.

Do you think it would lighten some of the grimmer scenes, perhaps, and wouldn't it be good pathos to have the butler aware of his infirmity and knowing the greatest surgeons in the world can't help him ?" "Well," Merton considered, "if I were you I shouldn't chance it.

It would be mere acrobatic humour.

And why do you want any one to be funny when you have a big gripping thing of love and hate like that?
I don't believe I'd have him cross-eyed.

I'd have him elderly and simple and dignified.