Ah!--and the waking in
the morning to the same blackness as you have had all night! I have
experienced it just once,--I began my darkness before dinner last
night,--and I assure you, Deryck, I dread to-morrow morning. Think
what it must be to wake to that always, with no prospect of ever
again seeing the sunlight! And then the meals--"
"What! You keep it on?" The doctor's voice sounded rather strained.
"Of course," said Jane. "And you cannot imagine the humiliation of
following your food all round the plate, and then finding it on the
table-cloth; of being quite sure there was a last bit somewhere, and
when you had given up the search and gone on to another course,
discovering it, eventually, in your lap. I do not wonder my poor boy
would not let me come to his meals. But after this I believe he
will, and I shall know exactly how to help him and how to arrange so
that very soon he will have no difficulty. Oh, Dicky, I had to do
it! There was no other way."
"Yes," said the doctor quietly, "you had to do it.
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