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No, I don't think so. It was absolutely a, b, c, no? Wouldn't you think so?

I didn't express these thoughts to a great many people because I was just puzzled and infuriated and obviously the people I knew and the people who were taking care of my friends who were victims of these various problems didn't know anything better to do. And somehow or other I thought that someplace there must be a large effort going on that was going to take up this horrible deficit and that great activities must be going on looking toward the alleviation of this situation. But, as I went on, I didn't find this to be so.

However, my life went on further, and I got married to Paul Reinhardt. In about 1928, he got a severe eye infection, which was one of the most frightening things I had ever seen. His eye was totally red; you couldn't see any white at all and you couldn't see the pupil at all--it was like a red ball. It was so severe that his doctor said that it was possible that he would have to have his eye removed.

Well, this absolutely terrified me.

Was his vision totally impaired?

Oh, he couldn't see anything, and it was one of these violent infections. Nobody knew what it was due to. He had a cold, I think, and he may have wiped his eye with a handkerchief that wasn't absolutely clean, or something like that. It was just one of these fantastic violent eruptions of an infection in one eye.