Above all, he showed an extreme impatience to recover his health and go back to the ordinary life.
"I shall be able to go for the rents next Monday," he said to Mr.
Woodstock one day.
"I should have thought you'd had enough of that.

I've found another man for the job." "Then what on earth am I to do ?" Waymark exclaimed impatiently.

"How am I to get my living if you take that work away from me ?" "Never mind; we'll find something," Abraham returned.

"Why are you in such a hurry to get away, I should like to know ?" "Simply because I can't always live here, and I hate uncertainty." There was something in the young man's behaviour which puzzled Mr.
Woodstock; but the key to the puzzle was very shortly given him.

On the evening of the same day he presented himself once more in Waymark's room.