THE DRAMA BEGINS She swayed a little, but recovered as the pain of the shock was succeeded by numbness.

That out of the dark of this room, into the light of that lamp, in this house so far removed from cities that it seemed not a part of the world.

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there should step this man! Why had there been no hint of his presence?
Why had not the clairvoyance of despair warned her?
One of her hands rose and pressed over her eyes, as if to sponge out this phantom.