Of course, he is NOT recovered. But he is doing a fair job of convincing himself that he is, and a very good job of convincing Anne!

"I will marry anyone but Anne. I want someone with Anne's strengths and without her weaknesses. She has no power over me at all. However, she is my baseline for all comparisons, I know exactly where she is at all times, I wonder why she no longer dances...what has happened that she is so altered? but I never think of her from daybreak till day's end..."