Ma Schmidt stared intently off to one side of me—not at me!—and asked, "What did you say?" (I hadn't said anything, and there was no one else in the room just then. Or rather, I couldn't see anyone else in the room! If she was talking to someone disembodied, I couldn't say who.) Then, a few minutes later, "Did you say something?"
But when she talks to me she looks at me. Admittedly she isn't doing much talking any more, besides "Help me." And she sleeps more than that.
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After a drink of water, she looked at me very intently and said, "I need a nice, tall .........." (The noun was lost to mumbling.)
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"I love you."
"I can't hear. Make a loud noise." (So I shout near her ear.) "OK."
"I can't see."
"I want a glass of milk."
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