"Why do you frighten my wife to death ?" he said.

"It is a mere trifle.

Let me remain for a whole night in cold wet wraps, and to-morrow I shall be all right.

And now, enough of the stupid business.

And will you please, Henrietta, look after my guests while I lie here in swaddling bands?
All I want is a couple of days of rest and then I shall be on my legs again." Towards midnight Henrietta disappeared from among her guests and went to enquire after Leonard; but she found his chamber door locked, and received no answer to her gentle enquiries, from which she gathered that Leonard was still dozing.