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 : No, we didn’t want to remind him.

(stunned) : Has Chris a child?

A boy he died five years ago.



Why?



[A pause.

How old was he?



Oh why did he die?

He was the loveliest boy, but delicate from his birth. At the end he just faded away with the merest cold.

Just an ordinary chill. We thought he would be up and about the next day, and he just

[She makes a weak, piteous gesture.

How strange it is it’s as if  they each had half a life! Oh, poor Chris, I never knew and he’s got to remember that. He always wanted a boy. He always said if we



[ and come in R. He is a bluff, hearty little man in the fifties.

(talking as he enters) : Yes, Mrs. Baldry, a complete case of amnesia