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Show -66- When he arrived home, he tried to tell his wife about the sight of the huge ship in the bay, but she was most intent upon the physical examination. She frowned when he told her about the extra blood test, thinking it a bad sign. As he sipped his martini on the front room couch, she kept coming in from her cooking? a spoon or a pot in her hand, to ask him for more details. She told him that he must get on the telephone first thing in the morning to make the appointment for the follow-up with their physician. He said he would, but secretly he thought there was no hurry. The physician could not tell him anything until he had received the results, and the Professor believed this might take several weeks; He wanted to put the examination out of his mind. When his wife returned to the kitchen, he poured himself another double-martini. He had felt physically better the past few weeks than he had since last spring, before his pneumonia? He still tired easily, but he had begun work again; and the next morning before he had even remembered the telephone call, he was back in his study working on his book. His wife made the call and got the appointment. The doctor would see him in two weeks. That would be only a few days before M s classes for the ;fail semester would begin. The doctor, the same large man who had committed him to the hospital for his pneumonia, told the Professor's wife that he should come in a few days before the appointment for another |
