Chapter 31:c
In which Addison is at breaking point One hundred and fifty smoked glass mugs are lined up on the trestle outside the smaller meeting room by the time Addison arrives, escorted by both Helen and Carla....
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In which things start to unravel As soon as Carla spies Talie coming in, she knows that a confrontation must happen. She cannot keep Addison above the despair line much longer. The tension is...
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In which Helen lets the beast out and destroys someone Helen cannot answer. The bile rises in her throat. Something has gone wrong. She can hear her own voice, a child’s voice, crying in the agitated...
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In which we see Addison’s and Carla’s worst fear realised Addison feels the most solitary person in a city teeming with life, as it surely is this Friday night. He has no part in it any more. He would...
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In which Steve taunts the onlookers Steve is high up in the walkway, dandling the baby between his hands as if aiding her to stand and walk. But her feet are not on the wrought iron floor: they are...
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In which Dinah’s fate hangs in the balance Addison enters the walkway with the light almost too dim to make out Steve’s form. The sun has been obscured by the rain clouds and Steve is some distance...
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In which we bear witness to madness Helen has seen Addison withdraw mentally – she has seen it before. There is something about him that shrinks into an invisible case that confines him to quarters....
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In which Helen regains some sanity Helen’s eyes meet Carla’s as Addison is helped to the ambulance by a paramedic, all of them quickly sporting damp patches on the shoulder after only a few minutes...
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In which we see further thought and development With Dinah safely settled upstairs at Park End Road, Helen goes down and takes the old tomes from the bookshelf. She then loses herself in them for two...
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In which Helen tidies up the loose ends with mixed feelings From the window of Addison’s ward, she can see the new maternity building and remembers all too clearly her visits there with Carla. I told...
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