CHAPTER XIV.
"Now no one will ever know." Robin waking from long unconsciousness found her mind saying this before consciousness which was clear had actually brought her back to the world.
"Now no one will ever know--ever." She seemed to have been away somewhere in the dark for a very long time.
She was too tired to try to remember what had happened before she began to climb the staircase, which grew steeper and longer as she dragged herself from step to step.

But in the back of her mind there was one particular fact she knew without trying to remember how she learned it.
A shell had fallen somewhere and when it had burst Donal was "blown to atoms." How big were atoms--how small were they?
Several times when she reached this point she descended into the abyss of blackness and fainted again, though people were doing things to her and trying to keep her awake in ways which troubled her greatly.

Why should they disturb her so when sinking into blackness was better?
"Now no one will ever know." She was lying in her bed in her own room.

Some one had undressed her.

It was a nice room and very quiet and there was only a dim light burning.
It was a long time before she came back, after one of the descents into the black abyss, and became slowly aware that Something was near her bed.