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Valerie describes Eliot being incapacitated due to “Asian ‘flu.’” She enjoins Lillian (without Eliot’s knowledge) to invite him over for a cup of tea, as “he is very fond of you and Collin and would, I know, enjoy a chat with you both.” She also elaborates, revealingly: “left to himself he may give way to depression.”