Then suddenly the curtain would fall.
"What is your name ?" To-day, however, he broke the monotony.

"An American.

Enschede--that's a queer name." "I'm a queer girl," she replied with a smile.
Perhaps this was the real turning point: the hour in which the disordered mind began permanently to readjust itself.
"I've been wondering, until this morning, if you were real." "I've been wondering, too." "Are you a real nurse ?" "Yes." "Professional ?" "Why do you wish to know ?" "Professional nurses wear a sort of uniform." "While I look as if I had stepped out of the family album ?" He frowned perplexedly.

"Where did I hear that before ?" "Perhaps that first day, in the water-clock tower." "I imagine I've been in a kind of trance." "And now you are back in the world again, with things to do and places to go.

There is a button loose on that coat under your pillow.