Chapter 39

"What have I done? Cleared the track for my train's right of way. I can go hurtling along it now, unhindered. No reason why I shouldn't. I couldn't be bothered with distractions like that. I'd never get anywhere.... It was best to come home to-night, too--of course it was.... Nobody knows what might have happened in the next twenty-four hours--especially after a regular quarrel like that.... Queer how putting on that dinner coat changed David from an invalid I could pity to a man I couldn't.... I suppose it must ha…