"Five years! Did you love him when you married him?"
She was silent for some time; then she said slowly:
"I thought I did—more or less. I didn't think much about it. And he wanted me. I was very prudish then."
"And you sort of walked into it without thinking?"
"Yes. I seemed to have been asleep nearly all my life."
"Somnambule? But—when did you wake up?"
"I don't know that I ever did, or ever have—since I was a child."
"You went to sleep as you grew to be a woman? How queer! And he didn't wake you?"
"No; he never got there," she replied, in a monotone.