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Just as they are relaxing after dinner, there is another dreadful suffocation attack, which is relieved by the half tablet of Sorbitrate under the tongue but which worries Priya Nath no end. Why had the attacks become so frequent after adding Sorbitrate?“The whole night was passed in agony by Pitaji. I had to watch my dear Pitaji suffer and could do nothing. Why God? Why? What has my dear beloved Pitaji done to suffer so? O Lord, please, please, make him well immediately! O Lord everything is in Thy hands!”February 24 is bad again. There is more suffocation in the morning. Shri Nathji has been hit by the suffocation attacks so consistently that he is in a kind of a stupor, and barely responds to what Priya Nath says.“Hamaare liye to tum hee saari duniyaan ho, “You are the entire world, the entire Universe for me!”“Ham tumko jitnaa pyaar karte hain koyi naheen kartaa.“I love you more than anyone else in the world does!“Ye saari takleef hamaari vajah se aayi hai!“This suffering has come to you because of me!”Priya Nath finds himself crying most of the time at this new and serious development. Now that Sorbitrate has failed, he does not know what he can do. He had read medical literature which spoke of sudden death in such circumstances.““Priyaji don’t care about these minor things. I am perfectly all right. Don’t take these things seriously.”Priya Nath often wonders how he and Pran Nath had got into the habit of addressing Shri Nathji as “