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Yet--oh, I cannot understand why God's way must sometimes be the way of battle!" Ailsa saw and heard and understood, yet, all around her fell an unreal light--a terrible fiery radiance, making voices the voices, of phantoms, forms the outlines of ghosts.
Through an open door she saw a lamp-lit room where her lover knelt beside a bed--saw a man's arm reach feebly toward him--and saw no more.

Everything wavered and dazzled and brightened into rainbow tints around her, then to scarlet; then velvety darkness sprang up, through which she fell into swift unconsciousness.
One of the doctors, looking at her as she lay on the hospital cot, dropped his hand gravely on her thin wrist.
"You cannot tell me anything that I don't know about Mrs.Paige," he said wearily.

"This is a complete breakdown.

It's come just in time, too, that girl has been trying to kill herself.