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Updated: May 7, 2025

In the afternoon they were tired and silent until Helen made tea. Miss Winchelsea might have dozed, only she knew Fanny slept with her mouth open; and as their fellow-passengers were two rather nice, critical-looking ladies of uncertain age who knew French well enough to talk it she employed herself in keeping Fanny awake.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

In the afternoon they were tired and silent until Helen made tea. Miss Winchelsea might have dozed, only she knew Fanny slept with her mouth open; and as their fellow passengers were two rather nice critical-looking ladies of uncertain age who knew French well enough to talk it she employed herself in keeping Fanny awake.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Twelve Stories and a Dream