Looks like the job will last for the rest of the summer, how are you handling it? Give yourself a raise and Abigail too, you both deserve it.” William said as he stepped into the elevator and the door began to close.
“Oh yeah, I m eant to thank you for the raise. I’m exceptionally good at anticipating your every move boss, fear not, my sister and I have been very generously compensated. I do love to have my way with your checkbook!” She said, and he smiled and she laughed as the elevator door closed.
*
“Your brother would not have these troublesome issues, William, but he refuses to comply with my prescribed therapies. His Bipolar disorder is far out of control at this point, he has been functioning in a dangerously advanced manic phase and now he has crossed over into a state of extreme dysphoria. He’s plagued with hypersexual behavior, an addiction to sex that consumes his every thought. Alright then,” Eleanor Selig’s eyes narrowed as she studied William, then she took a sip from a china tea cup and continued. “You aren’t my patient, obviously, but this illness more often than any other tends to afflict multiple members in the same family. It’s almost certainly inherited, have you any symptoms, William? And for the record, in my country we are not so politically correct in embracing this new term ‘Bipolar’. It is what is—Manic/Depression.”
“I appreciate your concern for my mental state, Dr. Selig, but I’m quite well I assure you. I do indulge in sex a bit vigorously and too often I suppose. But it is one of the true joys in life when a man and a woman connect on that most intimate level, wouldn’t you agree?”
The good doctor blushed and raised her tea cup to her lips with an unsteady hand and William smiled and suggested that it was time to leave for the airport.
“One more thing I’d like to mention, William, something your father seems overly concerned with. Walden claims that he is in love with a woman. He’s beginning to respond to his medications as I had your family doctor administer them in IV form immediately. Walden claims to have released the fantasy of your mother’s ghost which he then replaced with the idea of a specific angel. Together he and I will work toward the truth that your mother’s ghost was nothing more than a fantasy that plagued his mind in the extreme and that angels rarely appear to mortal men. To add fuel to the fire, so to speak, now his obsession has become an actual woman. A fair haired young woman who has ties to your father’s past. I’m quite disheartened that the elder Mr. Warfield unwittingly showed Walden an image he had recently taken of the girl with his iPhone. Walden is convinced that he is quite desperately in love and the girl is his destiny, that delusion will be addressed at my clinic, but I did want to make you aware of the intensity of his fantasies were she is concerned. I understand from speaking with your father at some length that you have spent time with this girl Alaina. It will have a distinct bearing on how I deal with Walden’s fixation on Alaina if you and she are intimately acquainted.” Dr. Selig set her cup in its saucer, raised her left eyebrow in disapproval and waited for William to answer.
“Yes, I’ve spent time with her. We should go now, Dr. Se lig, the jet is waiting and the departure time has been approved. The New Orleans airport is busy this time of year and we wouldn’t want to forfeit that particular time slot. I’m sure you’re anxious to have my brother in a clinical environment as soon as possible.” William called for the butler and maid and asked them to bring Walden down to the car. “My father’s driver will get you to the airport in the nick of time, thank you for your generosity in coming here and for your excellent care of my brother.”
The doctor brushed her short black hair behind one ear and straightened her crisply pleated skirt as she turned to go. She hesitated and faced
“Oh yeah, I m eant to thank you for the raise. I’m exceptionally good at anticipating your every move boss, fear not, my sister and I have been very generously compensated. I do love to have my way with your checkbook!” She said, and he smiled and she laughed as the elevator door closed.
*
“Your brother would not have these troublesome issues, William, but he refuses to comply with my prescribed therapies. His Bipolar disorder is far out of control at this point, he has been functioning in a dangerously advanced manic phase and now he has crossed over into a state of extreme dysphoria. He’s plagued with hypersexual behavior, an addiction to sex that consumes his every thought. Alright then,” Eleanor Selig’s eyes narrowed as she studied William, then she took a sip from a china tea cup and continued. “You aren’t my patient, obviously, but this illness more often than any other tends to afflict multiple members in the same family. It’s almost certainly inherited, have you any symptoms, William? And for the record, in my country we are not so politically correct in embracing this new term ‘Bipolar’. It is what is—Manic/Depression.”
“I appreciate your concern for my mental state, Dr. Selig, but I’m quite well I assure you. I do indulge in sex a bit vigorously and too often I suppose. But it is one of the true joys in life when a man and a woman connect on that most intimate level, wouldn’t you agree?”
The good doctor blushed and raised her tea cup to her lips with an unsteady hand and William smiled and suggested that it was time to leave for the airport.
“One more thing I’d like to mention, William, something your father seems overly concerned with. Walden claims that he is in love with a woman. He’s beginning to respond to his medications as I had your family doctor administer them in IV form immediately. Walden claims to have released the fantasy of your mother’s ghost which he then replaced with the idea of a specific angel. Together he and I will work toward the truth that your mother’s ghost was nothing more than a fantasy that plagued his mind in the extreme and that angels rarely appear to mortal men. To add fuel to the fire, so to speak, now his obsession has become an actual woman. A fair haired young woman who has ties to your father’s past. I’m quite disheartened that the elder Mr. Warfield unwittingly showed Walden an image he had recently taken of the girl with his iPhone. Walden is convinced that he is quite desperately in love and the girl is his destiny, that delusion will be addressed at my clinic, but I did want to make you aware of the intensity of his fantasies were she is concerned. I understand from speaking with your father at some length that you have spent time with this girl Alaina. It will have a distinct bearing on how I deal with Walden’s fixation on Alaina if you and she are intimately acquainted.” Dr. Selig set her cup in its saucer, raised her left eyebrow in disapproval and waited for William to answer.
“Yes, I’ve spent time with her. We should go now, Dr. Se lig, the jet is waiting and the departure time has been approved. The New Orleans airport is busy this time of year and we wouldn’t want to forfeit that particular time slot. I’m sure you’re anxious to have my brother in a clinical environment as soon as possible.” William called for the butler and maid and asked them to bring Walden down to the car. “My father’s driver will get you to the airport in the nick of time, thank you for your generosity in coming here and for your excellent care of my brother.”
The doctor brushed her short black hair behind one ear and straightened her crisply pleated skirt as she turned to go. She hesitated and faced
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