Henry Chester is the middle-aged business man who contracts tuberculosis. Although it is clear to the other patients that Chester loves his wife, it becomes more and more obvious that he is unhappy when she comes to visit him in the hospital. Soon Chester requests that the doctor tell Mrs. Chester that she is not to come back to the hospital any longer. Chester admits to Ashenden that he asked the doctor to do this because he was beginning to feel hate toward his wife. Chester is angry because he is sick and will probably die while she is well. At the end of the story after Ivy and Templeton's wedding, Chester and his wife manage to put this difference between them and realize that they do still love each other despite the fact that Chester is sick.
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