He spent the rest of the day in fact in his usual manner, enjoying his bathe before lunch, his hour of the paper and the quiet cigar afterward, his stroll over the springy turf of the downs, and he enjoyed also the couple of hours of work that brought him to dinner time.

But they caught the outline of his form as he lay on the bed, and had now for the first time realized that he was a cripple for life; and as the throng of memories came on themmemories of his skill and fame at cricket, and racquets, and footballof their sunny bathes together in sea and river, and all their happy holiday wanderingsthey could not restrain their emotion, and wept uncontrollably.

Thou that hast all thy lyfe tyme dealt in fyre-woorks, Stoves and hott bathes to sweet in, nowe to have Thy teethe to falter in thy head for could Nimbler then virginall Jacks.

And then Eric suggested a bathe to wind up with, as it was the first day when it had been quite warm enough to make bathing pleasant.