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eluctant to be flung there by the pills Dr. Scaper has
given her.
Judith is a good housekeeper, though she cares
nothing for her house. She is a good wife, for she cares
for her husband, not merely by being his caretaker, but
by taking on herself all the cares that trouble him, and all
the caring that he neglects to feel. When John's father
died, Judith wept. When John is thoughtless, she feels
guilty for him.
She feels too much. Indeed, she is so assaulted by
feelings that she walks around stunned, and her
acquaintances (apart from Sarah MacDermott) think
her cold or stupid. Whereas the truth is that Judith is
stupefied. She is deafened by screams she hears
shrieking from closed mouths, she is blinded by tears
she sees swollen in dry eyes, she is numbed by shame
she feels in cool, sweatless palms.
Judith Haig is too sensitive. She cannot watch
television, where once she saw a terrified pig stuck,
twisting with spears; a terrified soldier hanged twisting
from a wire; or even all those fictional heroes,
unterrified, who in night after night of violent crime