"I wish I could forget it," was the answer.
"You will when you are out of the country: when you get back to
Spanish Town, you may think of her as dead and buried -- or rather,
you need not think of her at all."
"Impossible to forget this night!"
"It is not impossible: have some energy, man. You thought you
were as dead as a herring two hours since, and you are all alive
and talking now. There! -- Carter has done with you or nearly so;
I'll make you decent in a trice. Jane" (he turned to me for the
first time since his re-entrance), "take this key: go down into
my bedroom, and walk straight forward into my dressing-room: open
the top drawer of the wardrobe and take out a clean shirt and
neck-handkerchief: bring them here; and be nimble."
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