Next day Susie took him to Chartres. Mrs Bloomfield was no
trouble to them, and Susie induced him to linger for a week in that
pleasant, quiet town. They passed many hours in the stately cathedral,
and they wandered about the surrounding country. Arthur was obliged to
confess that the change had done him good, and a certain apathy succeeded
the agitation from which he had suffered so long. Finally Susie persuaded
him to spend three or four weeks in Brittany with Dr Porhoet, who was
proposing to revisit the scenes of his childhood. They returned to Paris.
When Arthur left her at the station, promising to meet her again in an
hour at the restaurant where they were going to dine with Dr Porhoet, he
thanked her for all she had done.
'I was in an absurdly hysterical condition,' he said, holding her hand.
'You've been quite angelic. I knew that nothing could be done, and yet I
was tormented with the desire to do something. Now I've got myself in
hand once more. I think my common sense was deserting me, and I was on
the point of believing in the farrago of nonsense which they call magic.
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