Who is McLeod from Collected Short Stories Volume Three and what is their importance? W._Somerset_Maugham English & Literature McLeod | Collected Short Stories Volume Three

McLeod is one of the first sanatorium patients that Ashenden meets. McLeod tells Ashenden that he has lived at the sanatorium 17 years. He inhabits the best room there. Although he is well and could go home, McLeod has been in the hospital so long that he no longer feels comfortable in the outside world. McLeod dies immediately after victoriously winning a tense bridge game.