 where his brother has said, there is a curse on this house. Mother is dying, and Alice is dying too. He runs up to the third floor. He holds his wife until 2.30 in the morning when his family says, we need to come to the second floor. Middy, our mother, is dying. They gather around, and she passes of typhoid fever. And then he returns upstairs to the third floor and holds Alice in his arms for 11 hours.