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She found Hilda very pale , and with a curious look upon her face . `` I hope you 're better , mum , '' she said , for she was a kind-hearted girl . `` Better -- ah , yes ! thank you , Sally ; I am cured , quite cured ; but please be quick with the things , for I shall leave by the nine o'clock train . '' The night of the dinner-party was a nearly sleepless one for Philip , although his father had so considerately regretted his wearied appearance , he could do nothing but walk , walk , walk , like some unquiet ghost , up and down his great , oak-panelled bedroom , till , about dawn , his legs gave way beneath him ; and think , think , think , till his mind recoiled , confused and helpless , from the dead wall of its objects . And , out of all this walking and thinking , there emerged , after an hour of stupor , that it would be a misnomer to call sleep , two fixed results . The first of these was that he hated his father as a lost soul must hate its torturing demon , blindly , madly , impotently hated him ; and the second , that he could no longer delay taking his wife into his confidence .