“The women who come to me are not helped by wishes,” said Wilbur Larch. He put down the medium-sized curette and held out his hand for a smaller one, which Homer Wells had ready for him and handed to him automatically. “I want to be of use,” Homer began, but Dr. Larch wouldn’t listen. “Then you are not permitted to hide,” Larch said. “You are not permitted to look away. It was you who told me, correctly, that if you were going to be of use, if you were going to participate at all, you had to know everything. Nothing could be kept from you. I learned that from you! Well, you’re right,” Larch
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