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If it had been anyone else's mansion Beatrice would probably have given a full account of what had transpired to her maid; but after she had recovered the severe shock to her nerves, and speech was once more easy to her, she determined, for the present at any rate, to keep her own counsel.
No harm, she thought, had been intended to herself, for she had an indistinct recollection of being lifted off the floor and placed upon one of the sofas, where Lucy afterwards found her. The room was not disarranged; the fireplace was where it ought to be; the lights were still burning; and Lucy, on being called by her mistress, came in half awake and in a state of perplexity, which gave ample proof that she had not been previously disturbed.