For instance, not a day has passed since that poor child has been in the morgue that he has not been one on the line to see her.

He dreams of her, he says; he cannot get her face out of his mind--you notice that he has been growing gray.
"But I will stop here.

I do not wonder that you look upon all this as the ravings of a man on the verge of senility.

If I were in your place, I should undoubtedly do the same.

But ungracious as the task has proved, I owed it to myself to rid my mind of its secret burden.