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THE first time Mary recovered consciousness she was in a car of some kind, and she was wearing a thick overcoat, the sleeves of which were much too long for her. She did not remember much of that, except that somebody's arm was round her shoulder.
That impression faded out into oblivion, and when she woke again she was in bed: a very narrow bed in a plain room with distempered walls. There was a woman in nurse's uniform who was writing on a pad which she held on her knee.