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Then with a rush the ceiling came back into view: he was aware that he was lying in bed under a red coverlet; that the room was large and airy about him; and that two persons, a doctor in white and a nurse, were watching him.

He rested in that knowledge for a long time, watching memory reassert itself.

Detail after detail sprang into view: farther and farther back into his experience, far down into the childhood he had forgotten.

He remembered now who he was, his story, his friends, his life up to a certain blank day or set of days, between him and which there was nothing.