Nuttel
visits the countryside as part of what the text calls a "nerve cure." Nuttel has
apparently had some sort of unspecified nervous breakdown. He believes rest and quiet in a rural
setting will help with his recovery. However, his sister thinks his nerves will end up in worse
shape if he ends up "moping" by himself in a retreat. Therefore, she sends him off
with letters of introduction to people she knows (but he has never met).
These include the Sappletons, with whom he is visiting. He wonders to himself if all
this socializing with people he doesn't know is doing him any good or, instead, making him
worse.
As the story shows, staying in a house with a person with such a
wickedor even sadisticsense of humor as Vera's does not do him any good.
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