Bump.
How is this even being discussed, and why?
Hine went back to her desk because the "telephones were beginning to wink", therefore before the telephones begun to wink, the lights were not winking, they had stopped, they ceased to be on.
Miss HINE. Yes; and I went straight up to the desk because the telephones were beginning to wink; outside calls were beginning to come in.
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