yes, i know

Yes, i know, dear, but my brother's gone mad....very plausible, but i
have to shield the children.... stand there when they come for him....the
men in white coats, possibly. i remember our dear mother's end,
associated with orphan hugh's beginning, obol at school, and years
after, obstinately obol, and now "obol's world" ! indeed, it happens in
the best of families....dear joan....i'm finding this hide-away quite
comfortable
................

i run these off to get the confession from them,
then we start anew