V + 

A moment or two later she found herself squatting somewhere on the ground. How she got here she did not know⁠—where she was she knew still less. She was in total darkness. A fusty, close smell of food and wine gave her a wretched feeling of nausea⁠—her head ached intolerably, her eyes were hot, her throat dry: there was a constant buzzing in her ears. + 

The terrible sounds of fighting and screaming and cursing, the crash of broken glass and overturned benches came to her as through a partition⁠—close by but muffled. + 

In the immediate nearness all was silence and darkness. + 