"Dr. Wall and I have in fact been mounting a campaign to promote Simon from an invalid to a healthy boy with a slight tendency to colds in the chest.

And yet he could not help but feel empty, and cold in the chest; and certainly the others of the first hundred (at least) knew something had happened between them (again), which was infuriating, or so he told himself.

But when the designated morning proved wet and blustery, he refused to listen to Vernon's warnings about muddy boots and colds in the chest and other disasters which might result from riding over to Boulton Park in the rain.