'Doctor, one word,' I said, I believe, quite wildly. 'Do you--do you think
his mind is at all affected?'
'Insane?' he said, looking at me with a sudden, sharp inquisitiveness, that
brightened into a smile. 'Pooh, pooh! Heaven forbid! not a saner man in
England.'
Then with a little nod he walked on, carrying, as I believed,
notwithstanding his disclaimer, the secret with him. In the afternoon
Doctor Bryerly went away.
CHAPTER XVII
_AN ADVENTURE_
For many days after our quarrel, Madame hardly spoke to me. As for lessons,
I was not much troubled with them. It was plain, too, that my father had
spoken to her, for she never after that day proposed our extending our
walks beyond the precincts of Knowl.
Knowl, however, was a very considerable territory, and it was possible
for a much better pedestrian than I to tire herself effectually, without
passing its limits. So we took occasionally long walks.
After some weeks of sullenness, during which for days at a time she hardly
spoke to me, and seemed lost in dark and evil abstraction, she once more,
and somewhat suddenly, recovered her spirits, and grew quite friendly.
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