"Poor Carline!" he remarked.  "How he must have suffered before he could bring himself to the point of setting aside all his other work to attend to you.  He is a good man, a most excellent fellow in every way; but he has one fault--he allows himself to be too much trammelled by routine. With him everything, irrespective of its importance, must be attended to in its proper order; and now that you have jolted him out of his groove it will be days before he will be able to get comfortably back into it."