The doctor told me that the major's wife, who was very young and ＿＿（41）＿＿ he had not married until he was definitely invalided out of the war, had died ＿＿（42）＿＿ pneumonia. She had been sick only a few days. No one expected her to die. The major did not come to the hospital for three days. Then he came at the usual hour, ＿＿（43）＿＿ a black band on the sleeve of his uniform. When he came back, there were large framed photographs around the wall, of all ＿＿（44）＿＿ of wounds before and after they had been cured by the machines. In front of the machine the major used were three photographs of hands like his that were completely restored. I do not know ＿＿（45）＿＿ the doctor got them. I always understood we were the first to use the machines. The photographs did not make much difference to the major because he only looked out of the window.