When we had closed the door of the Psychopathic Ward behind us, Maynard
said:
“Now that’s the interesting part of it—that last—to a psychologist. Did
you note that she still loves him, whenever she comes out from under her
obsession about killing him?”
“Didn’t she kill him?” I asked.
“Not at all. You see, when she could get no more of the drug, her grief
and her loss of sleep ‘turned her brain,’ as you laymen would say.
Remember what she said about ‘Pa’.”