On arriving in England, Wm made directly for Nauheim — the passage had laid him low — and wife Alice went to tend to H’ry, who was on the mend. Wm now has a diagnosis of the ailment that will kill him:
“It’s a comfort to me to have a definite diagnosis of aortic enlargement to explain my symptoms by, and banish the reproach of ‘mere nervousness’ by which I myself, no less than others, had been fain to treat the case….The baths here can’t cure the condition, but can ‘adapt’ the heart to meet it better.”