CHAPTER XXV
She had no idea how long she had been walking. She was conscious of being glad that there was so big a place for walking, that walking was not a preposterous thing to be doing. She passed several groups of soldiers. They were reassuring; they looked so much in the natural order of things and gave no sign of her being out of that order.
Though she knew she was out of it. It was dizzying—that feeling of having lost herself. She had never known it before.
After she had walked very fast for what seemed a long time she seemed able to gather at least part of her forces back under control.
That blinding sense of everything being scattered, of her being powerless, was passing.
And the first thing sanity brought was the suggestion that Ann, too, might be like that. Once before Ann
