Miriam seemed like a new creature then , and rapidly recovered her spirits . `` For a week reports continued favourable . One night we went to the opera to hear a celebrated prima donna . When we returned home Miriam and I were sitting in her room , chatting over the events of the evening . `` Suddenly she sat straight up with a sort of convulsive shudder , and at the same time -- you may laugh if you like -- the most horrible feeling came over me . I did n't see anything , but I just felt that there was something or someone in the room besides ourselves . `` Miriam was gazing straight before her . She rose to her feet and held out her hands . '' ` Sidney ! ' she said . `` Then she fell to the floor in a dead faint . `` I screamed for Dick , rang the bell and rushed to her . `` In a few minutes the whole household was aroused , and Dick was off posthaste for the doctor , for we could not revive Miriam from her death-like swoon . She seemed as one dead . We worked over her for hours . She would come out of her faint for a moment , give us an unknowing stare and go shudderingly off again . `` The doctor talked of some fearful shock , but I kept my own counsel . At dawn Miriam came back to life at last . When she and I were left alone , she turned to me . '' ` Sidney is dead , ' she said quietly . '
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