![]() ![]() "Neither am I being heavy-handed and moralistic. "Otto? Do you know something?" Lonnie leaned forward confidentially. ![]() Most people are good, my dear chap, don't you know that? Most people are kind. She nodded, her eyes following me until I closed the door behind me. "Lonnie," I said, I don't think you're the least little bit like Macbeth." He broke off as I went round the back of the bar, replaced the bottles, locked the doors, placed the keys in his dressing-gown pocket and took his arm. "The kindly healer with his bag of tricks. "Aha!" He regarded his empty glass with an air of surprise, then reached out with an unerring hand. "You think I'm headed for the next world with my gas pedal flat on the floor, don't you?" Now I just looked at her, wondered if she had been expecting me to take a peck at her, then made my way foreword and down to the passenger accommodation. Ten years ago I'd have been back in that saloon pretty rapidly, arms round her and telling her that all her troubles were over. I peered through the plate-glass window and she was sitting as I'd left her, only now she had her elbows on her knees and her face in her hands, shaking her head slowly from side to side. Once outside I remained still for twenty seconds or so, ignoring the vagrant flurries of snow that even here, on the lee side, seemed bent on getting down my collar and up the trouser cuffs, then walked quickly foreword. "I'm not trying to deprive you of the necessities of life," I explained. I put the book down and headed for the lee door. This Hippocratic spirit-" He broke off only to resume almost at once. Hot-foot to the succour of suffering mankind? A new and dreadful epidemic, is it? Your old Uncle Lonnie is proud of you, boy, proud of you. "Now that we have touched, inadvertently chanced upon, as one might say, this topic-spirit, the blushful hippocrene-I wonder if by any chance you would care to join me in a thimbleful of the elixir I have here-?'
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