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He had definitely retired from practice when Richard left him . `` I ca n't carry it on alone , and I do n't want to break in anybody else , '' he had said , and had turned the whole thing over to one of his colleagues . But April had brought him back to `` Rose Acres '' in time for the lilacs , and Marie-Louise , uplifted by the fact that Geoffrey Fox was at that very moment finishing his book in the balcony room , had decided that lilacs in the silver bowl should express the ecstatic state of her mind . Anne , coming in at noon , asked , `` What are you writing ? '' '' _ Vers libre . _ This is called , ` To Dr. Dicky , Dinging . ' '' `` What a subject , and you call it poetry ? ''