Pierre Auguste Renoir Dance at Bougival painting

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Abruptly she turned her face away.
"Iwant to believe you!" she said, much distressed. "I almostcan!"
From behind me somewhere Stoker instructed me that the whistle was ready when I was, and bade me not delay. "Take her to the couch, Heddy," he said.
"I'mtrying," Mrs. Sear fretted. "Come on, dears!"
"You mustmake yourself believe," Dr. Sear said pleasantly to Anastasia. "Matter of will, actually."
But she shook her head. "It's notright. Especially at a funeral service."
Before I could inquire what exactly was afoot, Stoker himself came up on the dais and firmly ordered his wife to go with Dr. and Mrs. Sear. She hesitated, her face distraught, and then permitted herself to be led to the bier. There were a fewolés and some scattered applause -- whether for her, or a newly roused Croaker, or something on the screen, I was too grieved to care.