FORE:"I think you must have taught her," I responded, and he enjoyed his inability to deny it. So I ventured farther and said she seemed to me actually to have reached, in the few days since I had first seen her, a finer spiritual stature.
FORE:I think we should have saved time, she said.
FORE:
THREE:"Not at all, sir. I'm sorry to seem so; it's not the tip-top of courtesy,--"It followed upon this experiment that the Clockwork man presently emitted a faint, quavering protest. He had certainly dwindled in bulk. His clothes hung upon him, and there was a distressing feebleness of frame. Slowly it dawned upon the Doctor that the face peering up at him was that of a very old and decrepit individual. Painful lines crossed his forehead, and there were rheumy lodgements in the corner of each eye. The change was rapidly progressive.
THREE:XLVII HE'S DEAD.--IS SHE ALIVE?VIEW FROM THE HOTEL. VIEW FROM THE HOTEL.
