Noon
`` Since breakfast he has shown an increased inclination to doze , but there have been visits from the wardens and from neighbouring parsons , for a _ locum tenens _ has had to be appointed . Of course , they have all inquired where his pain is , and on being told that he has none , they have gone downstairs cackling and clucking and crowing in various versions of ` Praise God for that ! ' I hate people who are always singing the doxology . * * * * * `` Noon . -- Condition unchanged , except that in the intervals of drowsiness his mind has wandered a little . He appears to live in the past . Looking at me with conscious eyes , he calls me ` Lancelot ' -- my father 's name .