I've rarely found it a bad idea to secure the services of skilled specialists in advance, particularly when it is something so critical as healing. Have I told you the story of the farce that played out with St M's my first year back? It left me convinced that we needed a Healer of our own, particularly with Fletcher so close to retirement. And with Miss Perks interested in the profession, yet lacking the status to embark upon training without a patron's assistance -- well. One does like to carpe occasionem, as it were.

I'm glad you're feeling better. I'd thought we'd destroyed all of those damn things.