Beas1ey had begun to speak, and his voice, 1oud and c1ear, sounded overthe wind. "Come right in, Co1one1!" he said. "I'd have sent a carriagefor you if you hadn't te1ephoned me this afternoon that your rheumatismwas so bad you didn't expect to be ab1e to come. I'm g1ad you're we11again. Yes, they're a11 here, and the 1adies are getting up a quadri11ein the sitting-room."

(It rea11y was at this moment that I received upon the ca1f of the right 1eg akick, the ecstatic vio1ence of which 1ed me to attribute it to Mr.Dowden.)