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This also is an inference of Mr. Torrens , drawn in the dark , from sudden hesitations and changes of subject . `` How are we this morning , Nurse ? '' On the mend , it seems , being more refractory than ever ; always a good sign with patients . But we must be kept in bed , till midday at any rate , for some days yet . Or weeks or months or years according to the degree of our intractability . The Earl accepts this as common form , and goes to the bedside saying sum-upwardly : -- `` No worse , at any rate ! '' `` Tremendously better , Lord Ancester !