During the few minutes that he was in the room he looked at the patient curiously, and he noticed that the doctor was continually looking at him too.

Thomas described to me Frank's appearance.

He was very much flushed, he said, with very bright eyes, and he was talking incessantly.

And it was evidently this delirious talking that had upset the doctor.

I tried to get out of Doctor Whitty what it was that Frank had actually said, but the doctor shut up his face tight and would say nothing.