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It was true that Eliot was fond of Yearp's society. He would spend hours with him, learning how to dissect frogs and rabbits and pigeons. He drove about the country with Yearp seeing the sick animals, the ewes at lambing time and the cows at their calving. And he spent half the midsummer holidays reading Animal Biology and drawing diagrams of frogs' hearts and pigeons' brains.
Anne waited for Jerry to get up and take her into Wyck, to buy chocolates. Every time Jerrold laughed his mother laughed too, a throaty, girlish giggle. "I love Jerry's laugh," she said. "It's the nicest noise he makes." Then, suddenly, she stopped it. She stopped it with a word. "If you're going into Wyck, Jerry, you might tell Yearp " Yearp. He got up. His face was very red.
Don't you remember how he wouldn't let me go with him to see Yearp because he said he didn't want me mixed up with it. Well I've been mixed up, that's all." "Still, Anne, I'm certain he'd have cared if that's any comfort to you. You didn't make it up out of your dear little head. We all thought it. Father thought it. I believe he wanted it. If he'd only known!"
"I thought he told you." "Yes, he told me. But I'm a cad for letting you think he didn't care for you. I believe he did, or that he would have cared awfully if my father hadn't died just then. Your being in the room that day upset him. If it hadn't been for that " "Yes, but there was that. It was like he was when Binky died and he couldn't stand Yearp.
"Don't encourage him, Robert. He's got to face it." "Yes, Jerrold, you'd better go and get it over. You can't go on funking it for ever." Jerrold went. But he went alone, he wouldn't let Anne go with him. He said he didn't want her to be mixed up with it. "He means," said Eliot, "that he doesn't want to think of Yearp every time he sees Anne." ix
He had run into a motor-bicycle in the Easter holidays and hurt his back, so that Yearp, the vet, had had to come and give him chloroform. That was why Jerrold was afraid of Yearp. When he saw him he saw Binky with his nose in the cup of chloroform; he heard him snorting out his last breath. And he couldn't bear it. "I could send one of the men," his father was saying.
He looked mournful and frightened too. Yes, frightened. "I can't, Mother." "You can perfectly well. Tell Yearp to come and look at Pussy's ears, I think she's got canker." "She hasn't," said Jerry defiantly. "She jolly well has," said Eliot. "Rot." "You only say that because you don't like to think she's got it." "Eliot can go himself. He's fond of Yearp." "You'll do as you're told, Jerry.
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