"He suddenly became violent to-night, while we were talking about his 'cello; got up, staggered across, and struck me on the mouth." Dr.Dick's keen eyes were instantly bent upon Aubrey Treherne in perplexed scrutiny.
Aubrey shifted uncomfortably in his seat; then rose and put fuel into the stove.
Still Dick sat silent.
When Aubrey resumed his seat, Dick spoke--slowly, as if carefully weighing every word.
"Now that is peculiar," he said.

"Ronnie's mental condition is a perfectly amiable one, unless anything was said or done to cause him extreme provocation.

In fact, he would not be easily provoked.

He is inclined rather to take a maudlinly affectionate and friendly view of things and people; to be very simply, almost childishly, pleased with the last new idea.

That wretched Infant of his is a case in point.