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He is nervously quite wrecked and wretched ; has no confidence in Dr. Denbigh ; and either Maria or I will go to the hospital every day till the boy 's mother comes from California . It is a very trying situation . For his misfortune has , of course , not changed my knowledge of his nature . I dread telling Cyrus and Peggy , when I meet their returning noon train , after I have left mother at home , of everything that has happened here . As though these difficulties were not enough , this morning , just before we started to Whitman , we were involved in another perplexity through the unwilling agency of Mr. Temple . He called me up to read me a bewildering telegram he had received an hour before from Elizabeth . It said : `` Please end Eastridge scandal by announcing my engagement in Banner .