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A long silence followed. Neither of them, perhaps, realised exactly what had passed, or if they did, actual facts seemed very far away from their dreamland. Marion was the first to feel again the horror of the situation, tenfold worse than before he had last spoken.
"Oh, I cannot bear it! " she said suddenly. "I cannot bear it now -- as I could. Really alive, after all -- and this story to-day? Have you found out nothing? Have you nothing more to tell me?"