“It is highly dangerous to lift an unconscious person from a recumbent position.”

Why I should have talked like an article in a medical dictionary instead of like a human being I cannot imagine.

“This is a doctor — Mr. Carl Foster,” Sir Cyril explained smoothly, and she laid Alresca’s head gently on the bare planks of the floor.

“Will everyone kindly stand aside, and I will examine him.”

No one moved. The King continued his kingly examination of the prone form. Not a fold of Ortrud’s magnificent black robe was disturbed. Then Sir Cyril translated my request into French and into German, and these legendary figures of the Middle Ages withdrew a little, fixing