The sunshine was soft in uggs discount the room when Molly opened her eyes; it was very early morning and the air was cool and fresh. There were flowers everywhere. Asters and chrysanthemums, purples, yellows, creamy whites. There were dahlias the size of dinner plates, shocking pink, scarlet. The bed was absolutely still, no water lapping about it, no rocking motions. No odors of sweat and moldy clothing. She felt clean discount uggs for women and warm and dry.
     “I thought I heard you,” someone said.
     Molly looked at the other side of the bed. Miri, or Meg, or . . . She couldn’t tell which one.
     “Martha has gone for your breakfast,” the girl said.
     Miriam joined them and sat on the edge of Molly’s bed. “How are you now?”
     “I’m all right. I’ll get up.”
     “No, of course ugg boots on sale you won’t get up. Breakfast first, then a rubdown and a manicure, and anything else we can think of that will make you more comfortable, and then if you don’t fall asleep again, and if you still want to get up, then you may.” Miriam laughed gently at her as Molly started to rise and sank back down again.
     “You’ve discount uggs for women been sleeping for two days,” said Miri, or Meg, or whoever it was. “Barry’s been here four times to check on you. He said you need to sleep all you can, and eat all you can.”
     There were dim memories of rousing, of drinking broth, of being bathed, but the memories refused to come into sharp focus.
     “Are the others all discount uggs for women right?” she asked.
     “They’re all fine,” Miriam said soothingly.
     “Thomas?”
     “He’s in the hospital, but he’ll be fine too.”
     For many days they babied her; her blistered hands healed and her back stopped aching, and she regained some of the weight she had lost.
     But she had changed, she thought, studying herself in the large mirror at the end of the room. Of course, discount uggs for women she was still thin and gaunt. She looked at Miri’s smooth face, and knew the difference lay deeper than that. Miri looked empty. When the animation faded, when she was no longer laughing or talking, there was nothing there. Her face became a mask that hid nothing.