"I'm only a benighted fool; and having said that, I have said everything.

I'm one of those unfortunate duffers who have too much imagination--the kind who build their own chimeras and then run away from them.

How long shall I be kept in this bed ?" "That's particularly up to you.

Ten days should see you on your feet.

But if you don't want to get up, maybe three times ten days." There had never been, from that fatal hour eight months gone down to this, the inclination to confess.