'You've come to look after that great good-for-nothing of a brother of mine, I'll be bound! Come downstairs, and I'll tell him you're here.

You may well wonder what's become of him.

Ill! Not he, indeed! No more ill than I am.

It's only his laziness.

He wants a good shaking, that's about the truth of it, Mr.Grail.' She led him down into the kitchen.