CHAPTER III. DARBY AND JOAN 



My reason haply more To bandy word for word and frown for frown; But now I see our lances are but straws! SHAKESPEARE. 

Lancelot saw his brother's doctors the next morning, and communicated to his wife the upshot of the interview when they were driving to their meeting in Mrs. Grinstead's victoria, each adorned with a big bunch of primroses. 

"Two doctors! and not Tom," said Gertrude. 

"Both Brownlows. Tom knows them well, and wrote. One lives at the East-end, and is sheet anchor to Whittingtonia. He began with Clement, but made the case over to the cousin, the fashionable one, when we made the great removal." 

"So they consulted?" 

"And fairly see the way out of the wood, though not by any means quit of it, poor Tina; but there's a great deal to be thankful for," said Lance, with a long breath. 

"Indeed there is!" said the wife, with a squeeze of the hand. "But is there any more to be feared?" 

"Everything," Lance answered; "heart chiefly, but the lungs are not safe. He has been whirling his unfortunate machine faster and faster, till no wonder the mainspring has all but broken down. His ideal always was working himself to death, and only Felix could withhold him, so now he has fairly run himself down. No rest from that tremendous parish work, with the bothers about curates, school boards and board schools, and the threatened ritual prosecution, which came to nothing, but worried him almost as much as if it had gone on, besides all the trouble about poor Alda, and the loss of Fulbert took a great deal out of him. When Somers got a living, there was no one to look after him, and he never took warning. So when in that Stinksmeech Mission he breathed pestiferous air and drank pestiferous water, he was finished up. They've got typhus down there-—a very good thing too," he added vindictively.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What is the chapter at hand?
2. What chapter appears?
3. 
Q2:
1. Whose doctor did Lancelot visit?
2. Who was the doctor that Lancelot went to?
3. 
Q3:
1. What was the name of Lancelot's wife?
2. Who was Lancelot married to?
3. 
Q4:
1. How many doctors did Lancelot consult?
2. What was the number of medical professionals that Lancelot discussed?
3. 
Q5:
1. Did Lancelot mention Tom?
2. Was Tom one of the doctors that Lancelot spoke of?
3. 
Q6:
1. Did Tom know Lancelot's doctors?
2. Was Tom acquainted with Lancelot's doctors?
3. 
Q7:
1. Does one of Lancelot's doctors live in the east-end?
2. Can the home of one of Lancelot's doctors be found in the East-End?
3. 
Q8:
1. Was there a lot to be afraid of?
2. Were the things to be scared of in abundance?
3. 
Q9:
1. What was Lancelot mostly afraid of?
2. What had lancelot the most concerned?
3. 
Q10:
1. Were Lancelot's lungs safe?
2. Was Lancelot feeling confident about the state of his lungs?
3. 
Q11:
1. Has the machine been slowing down?
2. Has the pace of the machine become more feeble?
3. 
Q12:
1. Who could withhold the sick person?
2. Who would be able to hold the sick person back?
3. 
Q13:
1. 
2. 
3. 
Q14:
1. What was all over Gertrude?
2. What did Gertrude have on?
3. 
Q15:
1. Did Gertrude wear just a few primroses?
2. Were there only a small amount of primroses on Gertrude?
3. 
