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"Lilla -- but of course he comes for Lilla! " she exclaimed.
She raised herself on her elbow, saw the bed-lamp still burning, and / the fashion-paper on the floor beside the bed. The night was not over; / there was no grayness yet between the curtains. She must have dropped / into a short uneasy sleep, from which Lilla's loitering expectant / figure, floating away from her down an alley of the Park, had detached / itself with such emphasis that the shock awoke her.