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pulled out, ignominiously, and hurried into the house. As they brought her in, she saw Dave jump again and go on. The floating field itself was breaking.
Far out in the dusk, skating, was Fidelia.
The girls made Alice go to her room and, by force, they changed her clothes. When she got outdoors again, everybody but Dave and Fidelia was on the shore edge of the ice. Before them was water as far as the dark let them see; beyond was silence and coldness and night.
