they learned that Mark Hubbard had died. Leslyn was devastated. Worn out by work and worry, she descended further into alcoholism, and Heinlein was in no condition to help. As the war wound to a close, his emotions grew overpowering. After encountering a group of marines, one with a missing leg, another with “just enough of him left to sit down,” he went into the bathroom, locked the door, and cried for fifteen minutes.
