He took the paper with a frown of concern.  Tucking it into a pocket of his jacket, he glanced up as the waiter brought a tray back with two cups of tea, a generous plate of various kind of biscuits, and a steaming teapot.  He poured them each a fresh cup of tea and placed the sugar and cream next to the teapot.  Then setting the plate between the two at the table, the waiter looked to Douglas.

"Anything else, Mi'lord?"  He asked, having served the Earl previously.

"Nothing at this time, thank you."  Douglas smiled.  As the waiter left with the tray, Douglas looked back at Pip.  "Dr. Wells gave me a basic sumarry of yur situation.  Would yu mind telling me more aboot it?  If it woold nae make yu too upset?  The way the papers tell stories expand them more than the truth would 'old, most of the time.  Sae between the Doctor and the paper, I would prefer tae have a bit more information."  He added a liberal amount of sugar and cream into his tea.