CHAPTER SIXThe Earl stirred and was vaguely aware that someone was instantly beside him and was preventing him from turning on his side as he wished to do.
He felt very strange and his head hurt abominably.
He wanted to ask what had happened.
Then someone gently raised his head and a soft voice said,
“Drink this and you will feel much better. Try to drink please. It will do you so much good.”
He thought vaguely that it must be his mother who was speaking to him.
He then wondered what had happened to him and if he had been hurt in any way.
Then darkness seemed to cover him and he slipped away into it.
*
“You are to go out into the fresh air,” Doctor Faulkner said, “and don’t come back for at least an hour-and-a-half!”
Jacoba gave a little laugh.
She was becoming used to the docto
