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She will be strong enough to go through with it . '' `` But I want to be married in church . '' `` I daresay you will agree with me when I say that your feelings are not to be considered in a crisis of this kind , '' said the doctor coldly , and moved away . At noon on the eleventh Martha awoke from a sound and restful sleep . Sweet lassitude enveloped her , but her mind went groping for something that had been troubling her in a vague sort of way for the last forty-eight hours . `` Is it the eleventh ? '' she whispered , stretching out her hand to the watchful nurse .