And if Schneider himself had arrived from Switzerland at this moment to see his former pupil and patient, remembering the state in which the prince had sometimes been during his first year of treatment, he would have washed his hands of him and said, as he had then: ‘An idiot!’
NOOOOOOOOOO I FELT GENUINE DISTRESS READING THIS ENDING. I. I. I. I AM NOT ALRIGHT.
Bro i had my head in my hands and crying out bc of this ending I CANNOT ENDURE THIS?!?!
We really just read a whole novel about the failure and ruin of a positively good man.

