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 : You never said a word to me.

Tell me, Miss Baldry, his relations with his father and mother, now?

He relied on him, though. His mother was not his sort. She wanted a stupid son who would have been satisfied with shooting. Chris is rather romantic.



(speaking suddenly, rather tensely) : Yes, he was always dependent.

[There is for a moment a silence that is almost a gasp.

Doctor what’s the use of talking? You can’t cure him make him happy, I mean. All you can do is to make him ordinary and that means unhappy again.

It’s my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind back to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling that that’s where they should be. Sometimes I must confess I don’t see the urgency myself.

(sadly) : I know how you could bring him back.