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It starts with my own mistake.
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Every indication told me that the spine was transected,
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which would have been incurable.
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But when Sir John Coates came to see Matthew, he agreed with you.
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Well, he didn't. Not entirely.
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He thought that it could conceivably be a case of spinal shock.
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That is, um, intense bruising.
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Which was sufficiently severe to impede the leg mechanism.
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But which would heal?
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Why didn't you tell us?
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Because I didn't agree with him...
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and I didn't want to raise Captain Crawley's hopes to no purpose.