t me, measuring over the toy
with her hands where it stood on the shelf, and I should not have
seen her only for our dog calling attention, though a dumb animal,
being as I was in the yard outside."

"I think I follow that," said the Earl. "The dog pulled her skirts, and
had a lot to say and couldn't say it."

"That was it," said Gwen. "Just like Adrian's Achilles. I don't mean
he's like Achilles personally. The most awful bulldog, to look at, with
turn-up tusks and a nose like a cup. But go on and you'll see. 'Yard
outside.'"

"I would have thought her sleep-walking, but she saw me and spoke
clear, saying she could not sleep for thinking of a model of her
father's mill in Essex as like this as two peas, and thought it
must be the same model, only now she had laid her hands on it again
she could see how small it was. She seemed so reasonable that I was
in a fright directly, particularly it frightened me she should say
Essex, because my grandfather's mill was in Essex, showing it was
all an idea of her own...."

"I can't exactly follow that," said the Earl, and re-read the words
deliberately.

"Oh, can't you see?" said Gwen. "_I_ see. If she had said the other mill
was in Lancashire, it would have seemed _possible_. But--both in
Essex!"

"I suppose that's it. Two models of mills exactly alike, and both in
Essex, is too great a tax on human credulity. On we go again! Where are
we? Oh--'idea of her own.'"

"But I got her back to bed, and got her some breakfast an hour
later, begging she would not talk, and she was very good and said
no more. After this I moved the model out of the way, that nothing
might remind her, and she was quiet and happy. So I did not send
for Dr. Nash then. But when it came to afternoon, I saw it coming
back. She got restless to see the model I had put by out of sight,
saying she could not make out this and that, particular the two
little girls. And then it was she gave me a great fright, for when
I told her the two little girls was my mother and my aunt, being
children under ten, over seventy years ago, and twins, she had
quite a bad attack, such as I have never seen, shaking all over,
and crying out, 'What is it?--What is it?' So then I sent Elizabeth
next door for Dr. Nash, who came and was most kind, and Mrs. Nash
after. He gave her a sedative, and said not to let