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the days did not seem to matter to me, for I became locked in my thoughts of defeat and was beyond time. I heard the footsteps about my house each night and the laughter under my window. I only rose from my bed once and then I saw dark figures slipping among the rhododendrons, but could not recognise them. I was no longer afraid of them, for I knew that whoever was there meant only to intimidate me, to bring my nerve to the point of breaking and I became resolute that, whatever else happened, this they should not do.
Friday passed and on the Saturday morning when I went to my office, John Griffith sent for me and told me that the Board had expressed their continued faith in me the previous day, but that they were concerned for my welfare as I was behaving in a manner more fittin
