“It’s a wonderful thing to be happy, Frank. I’ve never been happy before
in my life. I’m a pusillanimous sort of bloke, and there’s the truth.
I wasn’t happy at home, or at school, or at college, or in any of the
hospitals where I worked; and I never made any friends. You must know
I’ve been queer when I say that women have always looked at me as if I
was outside of their range. They’ve never made up to me in the way they
do to most fellows with a bit of money and not deformed. Regina—there!
I’ve said her name—she was the very first who ever took the trouble to be
more than just decently civil.”