She was frightened for nine days and she did it properly.
She did not go to the library. She did not go to Faraday's seminar on the Thursday, which she had not missed in two years. She slept badly, and when she did sleep she had the dream about the boathouse boards that she went on having, on and off, for the rest of her life.
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