He felt again the terror, saw the lights and his nurse, then that new friend....

He pondered, lifted his spoon, waved it in the air; and then smiling with the happy recovery of a pleasant, friendly sound, repeated half to himself, half to his nurse: "Damn! Damn! Damn!" That began for him the difficulties of his day.

He was hustled, shaken; words, words, words were poured down upon him.

He understood that, in some strange, unexpected, bewildering fashion he had done wrong.

There was nothing more puzzling in his present surroundings than that amazingly sudden transition from serenity to danger.