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150 advise. What is it precisely that Sam’s wife has thought so much of doing?

[In the same insistent tone]

Of picking out a healthy male about whom she cared nothing and having a child by him that Sam would believe was his child, whose life would give him confidence in his own living, who would be for him a living proof that his wife loved him.

[Confusedly, strangely and purposefully]

This doctor is healthy.

[In his ultra-professional manner—like an automaton of a doctor]

I see. But this needs a lot of thinking over. It isn’t easy to prescribe—

[Thinking]

I have a friend who has a wife I was envious at his wedding  but what has that to do with it? damn it, my mind won’t work! it keeps running away to her it wants to mate with her mind  in the interest of Science? what damned rot I’m thinking!

[Thinking as before]

This doctor is nothing to me but a healthy male when he was Ned he once kissed me  but I cared nothing about him  so that’s all right, isn’t it, Sam’s Mother?