Chapter 38

_Note 1. Author’s note_.--“Describe him as delirious, and the scene as adopted into his delirium.”

_Note 2. Author’s note_.--“Make the whole scene very dreamlike and feverish.”

_Note 3. Author’s note_.--“There should be a slight wildness in the patient’s remark to the surgeon, which he cannot prevent, though he is conscious of it.”

_Note 4. Author’s note_.--“Notice the peculiar depth and intelligence of his eyes, on account of his pain and sickness.”

_Note 5. Author’s note_.--“Perhaps the recognition of the pensioner should not be so decided. Redclyffe thinks it is he, but thinks it as in a dream, without wonder or inquiry; and the pensioner does not quite acknowledge it.”

_Note 6._ The following dialogue is marked to be omitted or modified in the original MS.; but it is retained here, in order that the thread of the narrative may not be broken.

_Note 7. Author’s note_.--“The patient, as he gets better, listens to the feet of old people moving in corridors; to the ringing of a bell at stated periods; to old, tremulous voices talking in the quadrangle; etc., etc.”

_Note 8._ At this point the modification indicated in Note 5 seems to have been made operative: and the recognition takes place in another way.