Unknown (main narrator, possibly Aaron Tracy)

But he also has to have Felicity in his life.

He writes a letter to Neil, very pragmatically.

Yeah, you know, just be normal, Pat.

I'm just going to have some lynches with this beautiful woman that I'm obsessed with and I've been having an affair with for years.

No biggie.

Neil, shockingly, refuses Dahl's well-thought-out request.

And Felicity, again to her credit, refuses to see Dahl without Neil's blessing.

Two long years go by without Dahl and Lissy being together.

Dahl continues to be a mess.

He sends Felicity all these anguished letters.

Then, when he has a hip replacement, fixing an old injury from that plane crash in the war, Neil is still not really well enough to help with his rehab.

He calls Felicity, begging for her help.

Felicity agrees to come over.

They haven't seen each other in two years, and the affair immediately starts up again.

This time, though, Patricia Neal seems to resign herself to it.

Speaking of Dahl's triumph with James and the Giant Peach, she says, Quite the contrary.

It only enforced his conviction that although life was a two-lane street, he had the right of way.

One weekend, well after Dahl is recovered from the hip surgery, Felicity's daughter Charlotte gets in a serious car crash in Scotland.

Felicity brings Dahl to Scotland with her as her daughter lays in the hospital in a coma with a fractured skull.

Again, weirdly, another brain injury in Dahl's orbit.