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 appears in the story, Sanatorium. He is one of the first patients that Ashenden meets, and McLeod tells him that he has been living at the sanatorium for seventeen years. McLeod resides in the finest room, and although he is well and could go home, he's been in the hospital so long that he isn't comfortable in the outside world.