He would run down to Hampton or Kingston, he told Mr.Mew, in a day or two, and look for suitable lodgings.
"Hampton or Kingston by all means," replied the surgeon cheerily.

"Both very pleasant places in their way, and as mild as any neighbourhood within easy reach of town.

Don't go too near the water, and be sure your rooms are dry and airy--that's the main point.

We might move him early next week, I fancy; if we get him up for an hour or two every day in the interval." Gilbert had kept Mrs.Branston very well informed as to John Saltram's progress, and that impetuous little woman had sent a ponderous retainer of the footman species to the Temple daily, laden now with hothouse grapes, and anon with dainty jellies, clear turtle-soups, or delicate preparations of chicken, blancmanges and iced drinks; the conveyance whereof was a sore grievance to the ponderous domestic, in spite of all the aid to be derived from a liberal employment of cabs.

Adela Branston had sent these things in defiance of her outraged kinswoman, Mrs.
Pallinson, who was not slow to descant upon the impropriety of such a proceeding.
"I wonder you can talk in such a way, when you know how friendless this poor Mr.Saltram is, and how little trouble it costs me to do as much as this for him.