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now. He’s perfectly happy here and I can assure you we aren’t going to take the first steps in turning him out. He’s far too useful to us.”
“But it doesn’t seem fair,” said Angela.
“Look at your father,” said the doctor. “He’d be quite lost without Loveday to act as his secretary.”
“It doesn’t seem fair.”
II
Angela left the asylum, oppressed by a sense of injustice. Her mother was unsympathetic.
“Think of being locked up in a looney bin all one’s
“He attempted to hang himself in the orangery,” replied Lady Moping, “in front of the Chester-Martins.”
“I don’t mean Papa. I mean Mr. Loveday.”
“I don’t think I know him.”
“Yes, the looney they have put to look after Papa.”
“Your father’s secretary. A very decent sort of man, I thought, and eminently suited to his work.”
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