Of course things will be as bad as ever when his wife comes out of the hospital." "Pity she can't come out heels first," muttered Abraham.
Waymark found that the purpose of their journey was to inspect a large vacant house, with a good garden and some fine trees about it.

The old man wished for his opinion, and, by degrees, let it be known that he thought of buying the property.
"I suppose you think me an old fool to want a house like this at my time of life, eh ?" There was a twinkle in his eye, and a moment after he fairly burst into a laugh of pleasure.

Waymark asked no questions, and received no more information; but a thought rose in his mind which occupied him for the rest of the day.
In the evening Julian came.

He looked like one who had recovered from a long illness, very pale and thin, and his voice had tremblings and uncertainties of key.

In fact, a feverish disorder had been upon him for some weeks, never severe enough to prevent his getting about, but weakening him to a serious degree.