Regrettably, I haven't any chocolate pudding in my pockets, otherwise you'd be the very first I'd share it with now.

[ The Doctor listens with rapt attention. It's easy enough, this setting letters down business. It's the conversation that matters most, whatever he can learn.

A sickness of some sort, then? ]

Of course you won't, look at you, my lad. Picture of health! [ Of course, he's curious. ] Were you sent here, then, when people up there got sick? Did you used to live somewhere else before?