'Exactly, Sir, depend on't,' answered Sturk.
'Good-day,' said Dangerfield.
'Adieu,' said the doctor; and they shook hands, gravely.
On the lobby Dangerfield encountered Mrs. Sturk, and had a few pleasant
words with her, patting the bull-heads of the children, and went down
stairs smiling and nodding; and Mrs. Sturk popped quietly into the
study, and found her husband leaning on the chimney piece, and swabbing
his face with his handkerchief--strangely pale--and looking, as the good
lady afterwards said, for all the world as if he had seen a ghost.
CHAPTER XLVI.
THE CLOSET SCENE, WITH THE PART OF POLONIUS OMITTED.
When Magnolia and the major had gone out, each on their several devices,
poor Mrs. Macnamara called Biddy, their maid, and told her, in a
vehement, wheezy, confidential whisper in her ear, though there was
nobody by but themselves, and the door was shut.
'Biddy, now mind--d'ye see--the lady that came to me in the end of
July--do you remember?--in the black satin--you know?--she'll be here
to-day, and we're going down together in her coach to Mrs. Nutter's; but
that does not signify.
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