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If any one expected to see Miss Lloyd faint or collapse at this crisis / he must have been disappointed, and as I had confidently expected such / a scene, I was completely surprised at her quick recovery of / self-possession.
For an instant she had seemed stunned by my question, and her eyes had / wandered vaguely round the room, as if in a vain search for help.