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At daylight a sound in Lydia's room woke Gannett from a troubled sleep. / He sat up and listened. She was moving about softly, as though fearful / of disturbing him. He heard her push back one of the creaking shutters; / then there was a moment's silence, which seemed to indicate that she was / waiting to see if the noise had roused him.
Presently she began to move again. She had spent a sleepless night, / probably, and was dressing to go down to the garden for a breath of air. / Gannett rose also; but some undefinable instinct made his movements / as cautious as hers. He stole to his window and looked out through the / slats of the shutter.