You wouldn't leave me alone now, would you?
I can't see.

D'you understand?
It's black,--quite black,--and I feel as if I was falling through it all.' 'Steady does it.' Torpenhow put his arm round Dick and began to rock him gently to and fro.
'That's good.

Now don't talk.

If I keep very quiet for a while, this darkness will lift.

It seems just on the point of breaking.