"Joking" had been the thought furthest from my mind when I suggested the
anaesthetic. But, as he took it like that, and spoke in that tone,
naturally I had to pretend I really had been joking.
Agnew picked out all the pellets, as he had said he would, "in half a
jiffy," and I must admit that the pain of the "operation" was very
slight. I should, in truth, have been a milksop had I insisted upon
being made unconscious in order to avoid the "pain" of a few sharp
pin-pricks.
Next day I went to see my love, and found her in tears.
Her father was, alas, worse, His temperature had risen. At the hospital
they feared the worst. All the previous night he had been delirious.
The sister had told her that he had "said the strangest things," while
in that condition.