A diary without dates.

  • Bagnold, Enid.
Date:
[1918]
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    it is noticed. He will sit in a chair beside Palmer for hours, raising and lowering his eyebrows and fitting imaginary gloves on to his fingers. An inspecting general, pausing at his bed this morning, said : A dairyman, are you ? Frightened of horses, are you ? Then what do you do about the cows ? He was pleased with his own joke, and the dairjTTian smiled too, uncomprehendingly, his eyebrows shooting up and do\^^l like swallows' wings. Such jokes mean nothing to him; he is where no joke but his o^^^l will ever please him any more. . . . Palmer doesn't like sitting near him, but since it is too much trouble to move he allows it—poor Palmer, who has a piece of metal somewhere in his brain and is never seen without one long hand to his aching head. He said to me yesterday when I asked him which convalescent home he was going to, It doesn't matter. We both go to the same kind before long ... jerking his thumb at the dairyman. As for the latter, there surely can be no escape, but for Palmer . . . They won't take it out; too risky. Seen my X-ray picture ? No.