TWENTY-ONE
JACK REID’S CONFESSION
Forbes took up his tale once more as Kate and I sat listening attentively.
“So, the visits to see Jack Reid continued. I became quite friendly with his psychiatrist, Ruth Truman, and though she would never discuss details of his illness and his treatment with me, for professional reasons, she grew to be quite forthcoming about his general demeanour and attitude, always at pains to let me know whether he was in a receptive mood or not each time I arrived to speak with him. If he was in one of his occasional sullen and uncooperative moods, I found it hard to justify my time with him as he’d say extraordinarily little and would really do no more than go over what he’d told me on previous visits. Thankfully, that only occurred a couple of times and the rest
