“What would you say if I told you I mean to kill myself?�
Yethill ran his armor-plated head against the last wall. He answered brutally:
“I should tell you, if you were such a fool as to threaten such a thing, to do it, and have done with it!�
She said, “Very well!�—and did it.
When people came running in, they found something—perhaps it was the system—scattered on the walls, on the floor, everywhere. And Yethill was howling, and beating his seven-inch skull against heavy pieces of furniture, and calling on Annie to come back. But she had escaped, and was in no hurry; and he hadn’t the pluck to follow her out of the world and apologize.
“Was she mad?� somebody asked the Doctor; and the Doctor said:
“No; but she might have become so if she had lived much longer with a lunatic!�
“You mean——?�
“I mean,� said the Doctor, “that Yethill has been suffering from dementia for years. I mean that he will see the inside of a Lunatic Asylum in six months from date.�