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He discarded the theory as repellent And yet there must be a

reason for his depression Today of all days, as Mac had pointed

out, he had everything to make him happy Popular as he was in

America, this was the first piece of his to be produced in London,

and there was no doubt that it was a success of unusual dimensions

And yet he felt no elation

He reached Piccadilly and turned ards And then, as he passed

the gates of the In and Out Club, he had a moment of clear vision

and understood everything He was depressed because he was bored,

and he was bored because he was lonely Mac, that solid thinker,

had been right The solution of the probleirl and have a hoht He was

mildly surprised that he had tried in any other direction for an

explanation of his gloom It was all the more inexplicable in that

fully 80 per cent of the lyrics which he had set in the course of

his ht at the back of they of sentimentality He seemed to

be alone in the world which had paired itself off into a sort of

seething welter of happy couples Taxicabs full of happy couples