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 : No. I brought him home  yesterday. The doctor thought it best.

Not here?

I thought I had better come down here to prepare you first.



The shock the incomprehensibility of it all. I thought it best to wait and tell you personally. We only arrived last night.



He won’t talk. And, I’m afraid, very irritable. He seems to resent all my attempts at conversation. He just sits and broods. Once, last night in the train, he gave vent to an outburst about this Margaret how much he loved her, how he must see her. Since then he’s hardly spoken a word he just sits



[Her face darkens with jealousy.

(He rises and pats her shoulder.) Please believe you have my very deepest sympathy, my dear.

I must see him!