I assure you, Katharine, I've been through it all myself.

At one time I was always asking myself absurd questions which came to nothing either.
What you want, if I may say so, is some occupation to take you out of yourself when this morbid mood comes on.

If it hadn't been for my poetry, I assure you, I should often have been very much in the same state myself.

To let you into a secret," he continued, with his little chuckle, which now sounded almost assured, "I've often gone home from seeing you in such a state of nerves that I had to force myself to write a page or two before I could get you out of my head.

Ask Denham; he'll tell you how he met me one night; he'll tell you what a state he found me in." Katharine started with displeasure at the mention of Ralph's name.