12/18 "Brain fever is a popular fiction," he said. "It is not a term admitted by the faculty. If you mean meningitis--no, I trust not. "How easily you good people hand a fellow-creature over to that darkest of all fates! Ronnie's condition is brought about by temporary circumstances which are not in the least likely to have permanent results. He has always had the eccentricity of genius; but, since his genius has been recognised, people have ceased to consider him eccentric. |