"Your father feeling better now, Stevens?"

 

"I'm glad to say he has made a full recovery, sir."

 

"Jolly pleased to hear that. Jolly pleased."

 

"Thank you, sir."

 

"Look here, Stevens, have there been any well - signs at all? I mean signs to

tell us your father may be wishing his burden lightened somewhat? Apart from

this business of him falling, I mean."

 

"As I say, sir, my father appears to have made a full recovery and I believe he

is still a person of considerable dependability. It is true one or two errors

have been noticeable recently in the discharging of his duties, but these are in

every case very trivial in nature."

 

"But none of us wish to see anything of that sort happen ever again, do we? I

mean, your father collapsing and all that."

 

"Indeed not, sir."

 

"And of course, if it can happen out on the lawn, it could happen anywhere. And

at any time."