Chapter Seventeen
More Exercise
Of course my breathing air was quickly restored after I fainted, but as was now usual, with a sleeping component added to it, so I’d not come immediately awake again. When I next regained awareness, I saw the same array of bars and the featureless wall beyond them, but it was a long time before the sternly-costumed, long-skirted figure of Governess came into my field of vision. She raised her hand in greeting and at the same time my ability to hear was returned, but only while she spoke.
“Hello once more, Little One,” she said happily. “I hope you’ve again enjoyed the manner in which you were put to sleep? You were quite a spectacle to watch and as another means of controlling you, I think it is an admirable process and quite entertaining, although I’m su
