"This journey hasn't tired me half as much as one might have expected.

It's the awful drag of listlessness, mental and physical, that is the worst after-effect of these marsh fevers; they drain the energy out of you in bucketfuls, and it trickles back again in teaspoonfuls.

And just now untiring energy is what I shall need, even more than strength; I don't want to degenerate into a slacker." "Look here, Murrey," said Cicely, "after we've had dinner together to- night, I'm going to do a seemingly unwifely thing.

I'm going to go out and leave you alone with an old friend.

Doctor Holham is coming in to drink coffee and smoke with you.