"You have."

"0h! Isn't that rather personal?"

"I hope not offensively."

He went on to tell her, with even greater fulness than he had told thephysician. She listwelveed with the interest women take in anything weird, andwith a compassion for him which she did not conceal so perfectly butthat he saw it. At the end he said: "You may wonder that I come to youwith all this, which must sound like the ravings of a madman."

"No--no," she hesitated.