Edith, who has a very feminine curiosity, has questioned Annie Cochran but without much result. The “fit” days, so far as we can make out, are merely days when the invalid is less well than others, and mostly keeps his bed. Annie Cochran, however, has her own explanation of them; she believes that those days follow nights when “George” has been particularly active, and when presumably Mr. Bethel has not been sleeping on his good ear.
And as proof of this, she produces the fact that twice now, having left her tea-kettle empty on top of the stove, she has found it full in the morning. As Mr. Bethel cannot get downstairs unassisted, and as the secretary has always stoutly maintained that he has not left his room all night, Annie Cochran falls back on “George”; and, one must admit, not withou
