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Little Jacky Dale was six years old when Eleanor first learned of his existence. She happened not to be lying on the bed at the time, so she fainted first -- then went to bed.
There were dumb days when she went about like an automaton. Days when she sat at the window and looked at the bare branches of the trees, the dead stalks of the lilies -- the river! Sometimes she was almost able to think. Then a return to normality -- blank listlessness. Sometimes she seemed to hear a whisper in her mind -- but it was only an echo in the void.