When it neared time to start he dressed carefully.

He stood before his bookcase and selected several pamphlets published by the Department of Agriculture.

He went to his beds and gathered a large arm load of plants.

Then he was ready to make his first trip to see the Dream Girl, but it never occurred to him that he was going courting.
He had decided fully that there would be no use to try to make love to a girl manifestly so ill and in trouble.

The first thing, it appeared to him, was to dispel the depression, improve the health, and then do the love making.