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146 wants me to consult you, I might as well give you the whole case history!

[Wearily]

I warn you it isn’t pretty, Doctor! But then life doesn’t seem to be pretty, does it? And, after all, you aided and abetted God the Father in making this mess. I hope it’ll teach you not to be so cocksure in future.

[More and more bitterly]

I must say you proceeded very unscientifically, Doctor!

[Then suddenly starts her story in a dull monotonous tone recalling that of mother in the previous Act]

When we went to visit Sam’s mother I’d known for two months that I was going to have a baby.

[Startled—unable to hide a trace of disappointment]

Oh, then you actually were?

[Thinking disappointedly and ashamed of himself for being disappointed]

All wrong, what I thought she was going to  then why didn’t she?

[With a strange happy intensity]

Oh, Ned, I loved it more than I’ve ever loved anything in my life—even Gordon! I loved it so it seemed at times that Gordon must be its real father, that Gordon must have come to me in a dream while I was lying asleep beside Sam! And I was happy! I almost loved Sam then! I felt he was a good husband!