Hope I see you well.' 'How are you Durdles ?' 'I've got a touch of the Tombatism on me, Mr.Jasper, but that I must expect.' 'You mean the Rheumatism,' says Sapsea, in a sharp tone.

(He is nettled by having his composition so mechanically received.) 'No, I don't.

I mean, Mr.Sapsea, the Tombatism.

It's another sort from Rheumatism.

Mr.Jasper knows what Durdles means.