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With a sudden cry of fear Ivy Lexton sat up in the Jacobean four-post bed, where she had spent a broken night.
She was still plunged in sleep, but anyone standing, say, by the large half-moon window of the delightful old-world country bedroom would have thought her awake, for her violet-blue eyes were wide open and dilated, as if with terror.