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 : There’s no result?

When he’s hypnotised he knows everything remembers Kitty and me and the war  but he comes out just the same  blank as ever.



(viciously) : Yes, that expresses what we all feel!







Wise? Frank, she’s all he’s got.

Of course, I know she’s not attractive, but

She’s the only thing that keeps him sane. She’s marvellous.



They go for walks together, or sit in the garden. We’ve had lovely weather this week spring at last. Frank, it’s wonderful what she does for him. He doesn’t see her as we do, as I feared he would—shabby and bedraggled. He sees her as she was transformed. It’s incredible but those things don’t matter to lovers. She gives him peace. You couldn’t deny him that. She mothers his soul. And there’s another thing