"I have just left your house, but I couldn't seem to get hold of anything very definite about this sudden attack of your uncle's." "I know very little about it myself," Virginia answered.

"The doctor had only just been when I came away.

He said, I believe, that it was only a matter of a complete rest for several days, perhaps a week, and then possibly a short holiday." Mr.Weiss shook his head thoughtfully.
"I am much relieved to hear that," he declared.

"Your uncle is one of my oldest friends, and, apart from that, we are concerned in one or two very important speculations just now, things which you, young lady, would scarcely understand; but it would be awkward if he were laid up." "The doctor thinks," Virginia remarked, "that he will be able to attend to anything very necessary in four or five days.

They will not allow him, however, even to look at a newspaper until then." Mr.Weiss nodded thoughtfully.
"You were going back toward the house, I see," he remarked.