I see none of you seem to care about poor Sir C. I expect they are slicing

[Burney]

I’ll be finding out about their degree of malignancy or benignity on Thursday, h. So fingers crossed for that little chat.

I can only give my experience of these matters, which is that if you've got something of that ilk, your feet don't touch the ground before they start treatment. Waiting 10 days would seem pretty fùcking slack if that were the case.