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Better to await the time when some move had to be made or some definite decision reached . Now she must rest , -- rest and not think . Have any of us ever made the like acknowledgment and then tried to sleep ? In half an hour Mrs. Scoville was again upon her feet , this time with a determination which ignored the hour and welcomed night as though it were broad noon day . There was a room on this upper floor into which neither she nor Reuther had ever stepped . She had once looked in but that was all . To-night -- because she could not sleep ; because she must not think -- she was resolved to enter it .