Sydney. This morning. Then a lot about its being inexplicable and the precautions they had taken and so on. The fact remains that he has managed to get away.
Miss Fairfield. It’s disgraceful carelessness.
Sydney. Their theory is that he has suddenly come to himself. Is it possible, Auntie? Can it happen?
Miss Fairfield. It’s quite possible. It does. It was the same with my poor sister, Grace. After ten years that was.
Sydney. But the doctors said incurable.
Miss Fairfield. The Almighty’s greater than the doctors. And nerves—nerves are queer things. I nursed your Aunt Grace. Well, I always told your mother to wait.
Sydney. [Struck] Is that a fact about Aunt Grace? Was she out of her mind too?
Miss Fairfield. She never had to be sent away.
Sydney. Nobody ever told me.
Miss Fairfield. There’s something in most families.