"Aha! I can take Mrs.Housekeeper's medicine whenever I like," he thought slily.
His faith in the remedy was not at all shaken by his conviction that Madame Fontaine was mad.

It was the Doctor who had made the remedy--and the Doctor could not commit a mistake.

"She's not fit to have the keeping of such a precious thing," he concluded.

"I'll take the whole of it under my own charge.

Shall I tell Mistress, when we have done work ?" He considered this question, cleaning his keys, and looking furtively from time to time at Mrs.Wagner.The cunning which is almost invariably well developed in a feeble intelligence, decided him on keeping his discovery to himself.