After they had talked together for a while, the man withdrew.

Zo (who had heard it all, and had understood a part of it) ran up to Carmina, charged with news.
"There's a sick monkey in the gardens, in a room all by himself!" the child cried.

"And, I say, look there!" She pointed excitedly to Benjulia and Ovid, walking on again slowly in the direction of the aviaries.
"There's the big doctor who tickles me! He says he'll see the poor monkey, as soon as he's done with Ovid.

And what do you think he said besides?
He said perhaps he'd take the monkey home with him." "I wonder what's the matter with the poor creature ?" Carmina asked.
"After what Mr.Ovid has told us, I think I know," Miss Minerva answered.

"Doctor Benjulia wouldn't be interested in the monkey unless it had a disease of the brain.".