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4 to realize, to expound, to come to life as it might be. I began by being torpid and timorous--that is wearing away. There
was little rebound at first, after the long strain. Then a night came when physically and mentally I had such strange sensations
that I wondered vaguely if I were going to die. I remembered that it happened sometimes to people after a sudden great change,
even? if it were? the change of relief. It is a pitiful thing, is it not, that the passing away of a man--a husband and father--whould
leave relief behind, instead of grief 5 Marian is well but so busy and so closely tied to her present work that I cannot
have much of her yet. On the fifth of August her hospital term is over and perhaps then we may go away to those healing mountains
of yours for a time. I shall come back here to be at hand when she emerges. Very affectionately yours Katharine Hooker
I should like you to call me Katharine rather than the formal Mrs Hooker.