Sheil Crozier as a "father" to her was too artificial not to provoke their sense of the grotesque.
"I wanted to find out his wife's address to write to her and tell her to come quick," she explained.

"It was when he was at the worst.

And then, too, I wanted to know the kind of woman she was before I wrote to her.
So--" "You mean to say you read that letter which he had kept unopened and unread for five long years ?" The Young Doctor was certainly disturbed again.
"Every word of it," Kitty answered shamelessly, "and I'm not sorry.

It was in a good cause.

If he had said, 'Courage, soldier,' and opened it five years ago, it would have been good for him.