On my last day Miss iold me about Dr. and Mrs. Maudsley.

        Leaving gates open and o ots pram e anot t t o be s temporary disappeara out of ion was called for.

        t feel able to approacly about it. tood t tra to go t    enced to keep tance is o say. Instead, t tor ly may or may not    a ime.

        Dr. Maudsley    young, yet ties    tall, nor really very muscular, but ality, of vigor about o stride along at a great pace,    effort. er to finding alking int to find ing    of keeping up. ttal liveliness. You could    but quick, y for finding t    person at t time. You could see it in , i, rong,    eyebrows above.

        Maudsley ’s no bad tor. ep on t tients art feelier already. And not least, toni ’s    made a differeo ients lived or died, and tered hey lived.

        Dr. Maudsley    love of intellectual activity. Illness o    rest until . Patients got used t up at t t t puzzling over toms, to ask one more question. And once    a diagnosis, treatment to resolve. ed t of all treatments, but    kept ing baet from a different angle, stantly casting about for tiny fragment of kno o get rid of t but to uand t in airely neelligent and amiable, ionally good doctor and a better t.

        tion of village men included t like to be left out of anytrio and listetentively as ted tale. tes left open,    on to ter some mi tory: t in tor.

        ‘the younger Fred Jameson said finally.

        ‘Out of trol,“ added the older Fred Jameson.

        ‘And anding to one side, il no.

        Mr. Boook ling breat it seems to me t rig got apped imes.

        All t their shoes.

        ‘Leave it or. ”I’ll speak to the family.“

        And t. t. It o tor, the village elder, now.

        to t tor actually did o his wife.

        ‘I doubt t any ,“ selling tory. ”You kno    ill, t be told not to do it again. Poor Mary.“ And sed urned o her husband.

        Mrs. Maudsley tractive tily, and     a trace of gray in it yle of sucy t only a true beauty    be made plain by it. hen she moved, her form had a rounded, womanly grace.

        tor koo long for it to make any differeo him.

        ‘t tally retarded.“

        ‘Surely not!“

        ‘It’s    least.“

        S. “ is just old-fasion is more uanding.”

        tor    atistically u tal abnormality in t out until    did not surprise    o believe ill of any-me, ake fra the rumor was ill-founded gossip.

        ‘I’m sure you are rig meant rying to get o believe only rue; so t could admit no differerue and w was good.

        ‘ hen?“ she asked him.

        ‘Go a of a , but o see me if I go.“

        Mrs. Maudsley nodded, . “ about t do you know of her?”

        ‘Very little.“

        And tor tio tinued er a quarter of an or said, “Per go, t sooner see anot do you say?”

        And so ter Mrs. Maudsley arrived at t t door. Astoniso get no ao say so t. No one able, br to collapse upon t to a sink piled y plates, and t inside you could ell day from nigy    told o knoigortoises off on    from room to room looking for Isabelle, but on taking i lurked everywhere.

        tired easily, and s maairs very    s, or meant to    t, and to be , sly trated on feeding t mucy, and it y, and    stayed udy,    dropped to to be, and it soon occurred to    it o c out once a year to do it once a week.

        Mrs. Maudsley didn’t like ains, and sig tarnis at tairs and t music t tered all over t doomatically to retrieve a playing card, t     a loss, so great    t c it and, being a fastidious,    it dooro end tact bety, faintly sticky playing card, and o put t    t oually, ible s on t of the room.

        tter. It y, certainly, and t    t even in t    tic family, s bed. tucked into a dark er bets of s    a flea-ridden bla and a filt first sook it for a cat’s bed. tted t out. It was Jane Eyre.

        From to ture o facilitate turo face a    s plader t be inctly. On tained blaed, brittle stems, and around it a    circle of papery petals like aso up; it crumbled, leaving a nasty yelloaiween e-gloved fingers.

        Mrs. Maudsley seemed to slump doo tool.

        tor’s    a bad o believe t God actually did    to everytoo taken up ing out to feeling in o notiy ot    all t realizing it.

        ool, staring into space? t keep topped up.    of to o    racted, absent fas she piano.

        t resounded in t, most un-pianolike noise imagi because ted, unplayed and untuned, for many years. It ion of trument’s strings antly apanied by anot ed,    of a screec of a cat .

        Mrs. Maudsley    of . O tood up, o    s moment tister t s alone.

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