lysistrategic

For her own sake as well as Anatoly's, Joan very much hopes this will be the case. She hopes, but isn't sure she believes it. Not in her own case, anyhow, as it seems to be quite different from all the others she's heard about. False hope does very little good for anyone but the imminently dying and Joan's not in the habit of dispensing platitudes or false palliatives. Instead, she tells him what she does know. "If he's changed, he can change again, and if he doesn't recover his memory, but you love him enough to try, he would be worse than a fool not to."