“We can’t have this,” said the doctor. “Get the gag.” One of the men went out again. Soon he returned with a kind of leather mask which fitted over the lower half of the face and did up with straps at the back of the head. He forced the mask onto Alice’s face while the other man held her down. Alice tried to struggle, but in vain, since her arms were still pinioned to the bed. The mask had a round hole where her mouth was, but the nurse produced a kind of black leather plug which he thrust into Alice’s mouth, closing up the hole and fastening it securely. Apart from some useless muffled grunts, Alice was silenced. The men now wheeled the frame over her bed. One of them grabbed her leg and lifted it up, then fastened it to the frame with a strap. He bound the other leg too, so that she ha