Why Cupid Came to Earl’s Court (Harry)

Harry says

Sounds almost funny, doesn’t it, after working for it and passing?

No, I suppose it doesn’t.

Call it ingratitude, waste of time and money, whatever you like. They are all the right words.

I’m very sorry about it, but there it is. I’m a fool, and you can’t alter me. I do. I was working to do well in my M.D. for two reasons.

First because I wanted to show you that I understood and was–awfully grateful to you for having gone without things to pay my fees and keep me.

And second–Well, that’s it. The second reason has suddenly crumbled. I’ve worked for nothing as far as that’s concerned. I didn’t know until just now. Don’t ask me what it is. It sounds feeble enough.

But I’m the sort of idiot who goes in for building up castles in the air, and a castle is no good to me unless the right person is going to share it with me.

I’ve made a hopeless mistake, and so I shall chuck everything and go out to Canada, or somewhere, and get on to something else.