“Too long! It’s lasted too long. All the time one’s wanting to let oneself go, and then one day one has to. Oh, doctor, I know I look a quiet sort, just like anybody else. But it’s always been a terrible effort only to be, just normal. And now, well, even that’s too much for me.” He stopped dead. He was trembling violently, his eyes were fever-bright. Rieux took his hand; it was burning hot. “You must go home.”
