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If you had brought him back utterly
helpless, yet his old self in mind, I could have loved him and
married him, and you would have sustained me in that course. Now I
don't know. My future, in this respect, is hidden like his. The
shock I received last night, the revulsion of feeling which
followed, leaves only one thing clear. I must try to do what is
right by him; it will not be easy. I hope you will understand.
While I have the deepest pity that a woman can feel, I shrink from
him NOW, for the contrast between his former self and his present
is so terrible. Oh, it is such a horrible mystery! All Dr.
Barnes's explanations do not make it one bit less mysterious and
dreadful. Albert took the risk of this; he has suffered this for
his country. I must suffer for him; I must not desert him in his
sad extremity. I must not permit him to awake some day and learn
from others what he now is, and that I, the woman he loved, of all
others, left him to his degradation. The consequences might be
more fatal than the injury which so changed him.


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