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When Leslie Gwyn woke, the sunlight was peeping round the edges of the drawn blinds. She sat up suddenly and her head went round and round. And then she remembered and her eyes closed, as if to shut out some horrible sight.
"Oh, you _are_ awake? " said Mary Wenner, bustling in. "Dick sent me up to see how you were. Everybody's most fearfully anxious about you -- even Fabe, though I'm not of a jealous disposition, as everybody knows."