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Helen stared at Mrs. Oates, with vague misgiving. There was something unfamiliar in the woman's appearance which eluded her: Her face, still flushed from the heat of the fire, wore its usual expression of good-natured surliness, so that Helen was puzzled to account for the change.
"The nurse?" she repeated. "She's rather a brute--but what's queer about her?"