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Show -376- to be in a daze, unable to comprehend what had happened to him - or? more accurately, what was going to happen. He felt relief at having been released from the large room, he felt gratitude to his friends for coming to his aid, but these feelings were overwhelmed by a great uncertainty that he could not Identify? His mind? Instead of focussing on any one problem? seemed to be flitting from problem to problem, then retreating from each, as if each contained some hidden danger to be avoided? He scarcely noticed when they turned off the freeway and onto Sir Francis Drake Boulevard? or when they passed through his small town and began the winding climb up to his house. As his friend's car pulled up and stopped behind his son-in- €H^i< i Eft law's ancient aiictomoteila, he knew i t was time to get out, and he f e l t a certain vague satisfaction a t having arrived a t the house, but he d i d n ' t feel capable of moving? His legs were numb and his arms seemed weighted. It took a l l his effort to keep his head upright? "I'm not like t h i s ? This is not me?" his mind kept t e l l ing him? But he was l i k e that? and his friends had to help him from the car and down the stone steps? where the light bad gone on above the front door and his wife and daughter and son-in-law stood waiting*in the open doorway? "What have they done to him?" his wife's voice asked in a tone that was not r e a l l y a question? |