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When Helen carried the brandy up to the blue room, Nurse Barker opened the door, in answer to her tap. In her white overall--her dark-red face framed in its handkerchief headgear--she looked like a gigantic block of futuristic sculpture.
"Thank you," she said. "This will help me to get some sleep. I must have one good night, if I have to carry on this case, single-handed."