I said never mind where my room was, I wanted to be shaved--there, on the spot.

The doctor said he would be shaved also.

Then there was an excitement among those two barbers! There was a wild consultation, and afterwards a hurrying to and fro and a feverish gathering up of razors from obscure places and a ransacking for soap.

Next they took us into a little mean, shabby back room; they got two ordinary sitting-room chairs and placed us in them with our coats on.

My old, old dream of bliss vanished into thin air! I sat bolt upright, silent, sad, and solemn.