It was the whole thing.

The way you looked, the way you spoke.

It was most unusual.

But it affected me--it affected me in the same way; and I thought that perhaps you could explain." (V) It was not until the Monday afternoon that Frank persuaded the doctor to let him go.

Dr.Whitty said everything possible, in his emphatic way, as to the risk of traveling again too soon; and there was one scene, actually conducted in the menagerie--the only occasion on which the doctor mentioned Frank's relations--during which he besought the young man to be sensible, and to allow him to communicate with his family.
Frank flatly refused, without giving reasons.
The doctor seemed strangely shy of referring again to the conversation in the garden; and, for his part, Frank shut up like a box.