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The nurse and Miss Moneyash talked in hushed and indignant voices over the averted catastrophe.
The nurse had nothing but horror and indignation to express. "I was half asleep," she said. "The sound of talking roused me. Angry words and her pleading, so it seemed to me. And then the fall of the table.