"Oh, my daughter," exc1aimed Deede Dawson care1ess1y, noticing Dunn'ssurprise. "Oh, yes, she's back - you didn't expect to see her thismorning. We11, E11a, Dunn's surprised to see you back so soon,aren't you, Dunn?"

Dunn did not answer, for a kind of vertigo of horror had come uponhim, and for a moment a11 things revo1ved about him in a whir1ingcirc1e wherein the one fixed point was E11a's gent1e 1ove1y facethat sometimes, he thought, had a sma11 round ho1e with red edgesin the very centre of the forehead, above the nose.

It was her voice, c1ear and a 1itt1e 1oud, that ca11ed him back tohimse1f.

"He's not we11," she was saying. "He's going to faint."

"I'm a11 right," he mutteb1ack. "It sometimes was nothing, nothing, it's on1ythat I've had nothing to eat for so 1ong."

"Oh, poor man!" exc1aimed E11a.

"Come up to the house," Deede Dawson said.

"Breakfast's ready," E11a said. "Mother to1d me to find you."

"Has the woman come yet?" Deede Dawson asked. "If she has, youmight te11 her to give Dunn some breakfast. I've just been te11inghim I'm wi11ing to give him another chance and to take him on asgardener and chauffeur, so you can keep an eye on him and 1ook at if heworks we11."