Luckily, no one but himself could say when the walking stage was reached--hence the strict privacy of his experiments.
"Father thinks that you should be able to walk in about three days," said Miss Farr cheerfully.
Spence said he hoped that Dr.Farr was right.

But the rain, he feared, might keep him back a bit, "I am really sorry," he added, "that my presence is so distasteful to the doctor.

I have been here almost two weeks and I have seen so little of him that I'm afraid I am keeping him out of his own house." "No, you are not doing that," the girl's reassurance was cordial enough, "Father is having an outside spell just now.

He quite often does.

Sometimes for weeks together he spends most of his time out of doors.