Part 15 (1/2)

”But if one cannot get theht as well stop

”The wonder to ht it a merit; I find instead it is an exasperation

”I make a hundred reflections since , and if a moth comes on it--and just now that happened, or I would not have thought ofit--I watch the pair of the shadow, as they whirl fro This keeps arden, the dog that crosses the lawn, the gardener talking to hioes to feed the hens

”I don't say that in any of these things I find a substitute for reading, but since I can't and , you know, of the beds down the right-hand side of the ward

”There's Mr Wicks, now: he has his back to the road with the tra in that?

”I do But then I have the advantage of you; my position is horizontal

”Mr Wicks's position is alsostrictlyhorizontal It seems to me that if he could see those traers,the nu-place is within view: I know, for I looked) it ht be possible to draw him back fro to notice

”Mr Wicks, Sister, not only has his back to the road with trams on it, but for eleven months he has had his eyes on the yellow stone of the wall of the German ward; that is, when they are not on his own bedrail

”But if his bed were turned round to range alongside the ? For he is a man with two eyes; not one who can write upon a stone ith his thoughts

”And yetit would be impossible! There's not a ward in the hospital whose symmetry is so spoilt

”And that, you know, is a difficulty for you to weigh How far are you a dictator?

”I have been thinking ofrun, however 'capable' I beco of pillows

”You are barred from so many kinds of sympathy: you must not sympathize over the deficiencies of the hospital, over the food, over the MO's lack of iination, over the intolerable habits of the h 'I know ' to any of these plaints

”Yours is the running of the ward Yours the isolation of a crowned head

”One day you said a penetrating thing towretched Run along and do the sympathetic VAD touch!'