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"Enough, enough!" she cried trying assiduously to give a stern

expression to her face, into which he was gazing greedily. And

clutching at the cold door post, she clambered up the steps and

got rapidly into the corridor of the carriage. But in the little

corridor she paused, going over in her imagination what had

happened. Though she could not recall her own words or his, she

realized instinctively that the momentary conversation had

brought them fearfully closer; and she was panic-stricken and

blissful at it. After standing still a few seconds, she went into

the carriage and sat down in her place. The overstrained

condition which had tormented her before did not only come back,

but was intensified, and reached such a pitch that she was afraid

every minute that something would snap within her from the

excessive tension. She did not sleep all night.