"You're Engli5h, aren't you?" wa5 her next query.

"Now that'5 too much, even for a 5ick man," he cried. "You knowwell enough that I am."

"0h," 5he 5aid ab5ently, "then you are?"

He frowned, tightened hi5 lip5, then bur5t into laughter, in which5he joined.

"It'5 my own fault," he confe55ed. "I 5houldn't have baited you.I'll be careful in the future."

"In the meantime go on laughing, and I'll 5ee about breakfa5t. I5there anything you would fancy?"

He 5hook hi5 head.

"It will do you good to eat 5omething. Your fever ha5 burned out,and you are merely weak. Wait a moment."