“Why, if I was you,” said Mr. Dick, considering, and looking vacantly at me, “I should⁠—” The contemplation of me seemed to inspire him with a sudden idea, and he added, briskly, “I should wash him!”

“Janet,” said my aunt, turning round with a quiet triumph, which I did not then understand, “ Mr. Dick sets us all right. Heat the bath!”

Although I was deeply interested in this dialogue, I could not help observing my aunt, Mr. Dick, and Janet, while it was in progress, and completing a survey I had already been engaged in making of the room.