But Oswald thought she might have told him.

Afterwards she told me what she had put in the telegram.

It was, 'Come home.

We have given Noel a cold, and I think we are killing him.' With the address it came to tenpence-halfpenny.
Then Albert's uncle began to ask questions, and it all came out, how Dicky had tried to catch the cold, but the cold had gone to Noel instead, and about the medicines and all.

Albert's uncle looked very serious.
'Look here,' he said, 'You're old enough not to play the fool like this.
Health is the best thing you've got; you ought to know better than to risk it.