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Most of us, no doubt -- except, I must once more add, the Kendals -- hover between two planes of consciousness: the inner life and the outer existence. The predominant values of either remain fairly well defined, and vary very little.
But for Captain Patch, that summer, the inner life and the outer one must have mingled strangely.