 afraid that someone else was going to win alice's hand that he actually nearly lost his mind he wandered the woods of cambridge uh... shouting the names of other suitors and the the family had to be threatened duels with other suitors and they had to they had to send a family member to bring him back to rest i mean so this was an intense courtship uh... but it was his sister so what he did ultimately is he knew that if banning connie and mitty