Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: poor patients is infected with TB, Fact2: young and lovely Jennifer Dubedat wants him to treat Louis, Fact3: Louis is like good-looking and charming wife, Fact4: Ridgeon arranges with colleagues to visit studio and assess case, Fact5: Jennifer leaves with new husband
Output (English): In London in 1906, colleagues rush round to the Harley Street house of the unmarried Dr Ridgeon to congratuate him on being awarded a knighthood for his claim that he can cure tuberculosis though in reality at that time there was no certain cure. Among them is Dr Blenkinsop, who was at medical school with him but now looks after poor patients who cannot afford to pay much and is himself infected with TB. Waiting in his hall is the young and lovely Jennifer Dubedat who, having heard of his alleged cure, wants him to treat her husband Louis, a penniless artist. Struck by the beauty and charm of Jennifer, and by the quality of her husbands drawings which she shows him, he lets her believe he will try to save Louis but stresses that his treatment is long and expensive and that he can only handle ten patients at a time. So that he can meet Louis, and see more of Jennifer, he invites the two to a celebration dinner he is hosting that night. While Louis is like his wife goodlooking and charming, it emerges that he scorns all trappings of conventional morality, being a feckless liar, thief and seducer a waitress recognises him as her vanished husband. Now highly doubtful about Louis, Ridgeon arranges with colleagues to visit the studio where he lives and assess his case. Recognising that his TB is far advanced, Ridgeon passes him on to a colleague and decides to take Blenkinsop instead. To Jennifer this is treachery and she begins to hate Ridgeon, while he hopes that he might marry her as soon as she is a widow. Beyond cure, Louis soon dies and in a moving last speech states his belief that love and beauty surpass all of conventional morality. He also begs Jennifer not to mourn but to marry again and be happy. In a postscript, Ridgeon attends the oneman exhibition of Louis works, which are selling well. Jennifer refuses to let him buy a painting and leaves with her new husband.