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At the Athletic Club they asked after her daily . Club members whose names he did not know stopped him to inquire , `` How 's your good lady getting on ? '' Babbitt felt that he was swinging from bleak uplands down into the rich warm air of a valley pleasant with cottages . One noon Vergil Gunch suggested , `` You planning to be at the hospital about six ? The wife and I thought we 'd drop in . '' They did drop in . Gunch was so humorous that Mrs. Babbitt said he must `` stop making her laugh because honestly it was hurting her incision . ''