“That is just what I wanted you to do,” Iona said. “You have been absolutely marvellous and deserve every word of credit the doctor can give you.”
“As I said, miss, and I’ll tell his Lordship when he’s well enough to listen, that you’ve helped, I thinks, much more than I have.”
He took a deep breath before he continued,
“He says to me this mornin’ when I were washin’ and shavin’ him, ‘tell Miss Lang I want to see her. I am lookin’ forward to having somethin’ substantial to eat.’ I tells him he’ll get that all right!”
He paused before he went on,
“Then he says, ‘I expect that you’ve been stuffin’ yourself, in fact, you are a great deal fatter than when I last saw you’.”
“That was not an insult,” Mrs. Newman said, “it be the truth. We’ve never had such wonderful dishes to eat as we hav
