In the end I lay down as directed.

And, because of the struggle I had vexed them with, they laced me extra tight.

Then they rolled me over like a log upon my back.
It did not seem so bad at first.

When they closed my door, with clang and clash of levered boltage, and left me in the utter dark, it was eleven o'clock in the morning.

For a few minutes I was aware merely of an uncomfortable constriction which I fondly believed would ease as I grew accustomed to it.