II.
The next morning she made an appointment to see Henry Cortelyou, the senior partner of the firm. Through him they had first met.
“Have you noticed anything strange about Charlie?” she asked.
“Yes. He’s acting as if he’s planning a nervous breakdown. People take things hard these days.”
“I don’t think it’s that,” Sara said slowly. She told about Dicky’s soldiers, about Ben’s leaving college, and about the broken engagement. “People in actual want may be melancholy and suicidal just on account of the depression, but that isn’t Charlie’s case. Just suppose a man had some secret trouble, some maladjustment with his surroundings. And then success picked him up and whirled him along for a couple of years so fast that he hadn’t any time for normal anxieties. And then suddenly he was set d
