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‘What about a nice cup of tea? ' Nurse Winslow asked and, with hardly a pause, she answered for him, ‘You'd like that, wouldn't you? Of course you would.'
Stephen watched her fussing around the little room, shifting the water pitcher half an inch to the left, fidgeting with the curtains. He knew his silence made her nervous. She was like a trapped bird, flitting to and fro and chattering incessantly. But if she stopped, she'd have to face up to the fact that he couldn't answer.