But sullenly she seemed to be saying: What use will
that be toyou?
In vain might she answer us in the words of Mme.
Women,and most men, for that matter, understand nothing of what I was goingto tell
you. I should not undertake to heal them unless Iunderstood them thoroughly. I see
on your table there one of Bergottes books. You have what I have hadoccasion to call
mental albumen.
That, he said, is a woman who made a great mistake
indying. But do you want me to take a cure like that, Sir? You tell me that you have
not been taking your food, not going out? He was cured of it, But as soon as he
ceased to bemad he became merely stupid.
Anyhow, you cant say nowthat you dont know what
Charcot said to du Boulbon.
He had not even been offended when she had said to
him stolidly:M. You tell me that you have not been taking your food, not going
out?
ButDreyfusism, like a strong gust of wind, had, a
few days before this,wafted M. We made my grandmother swallowthis drug and then
replaced the thermometer in her mouth. I think, too, Id better drive, seeing the
state you appear tobe in.
Even if I knew howto cure you of that, I should
take good care not to. All this Dreyfusbusiness, went on the Baron, still clasping
me by the arm, has onlyone drawback.
Nissim Bernard, youknow, she has that prejudice!
Anyhow, you cant say nowthat you dont know what Charcot said to du Boulbon. I have
told you that without nervoustrouble there can be no great artist.