"Tell me, Mr.Burton, has there been any change--er--in your condition ?" Burton shivered for a moment.
"None at present," he admitted.

"It is scarcely due as yet." Mr.Cowper drew his chair a little nearer.

His face betokened the liveliest interest.

Edith stood in the window for a moment and then sank into a chair in the background.
"With reference to your last remark," the professor went on, "it has yet, I think, to be proved that these beans are of equal potency.

You understand me, I am sure, Mr.Burton?
I mean that it does not in the least follow that because one of them is able to keep you in an abnormal condition for two months, the next one will keep you there for the same period." Burton was frankly startled.
"Is there anything about that in the translation, sir ?" he asked.
"There is this sentence which I will read to you," the professor pronounced, drawing a roll of paper from his pocket and adjusting his spectacles.