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Beryl had only just come downstairs when she was told that a gentleman wished to see her. She turned her head aside with a helpless, hunted gesture, almost as though she contemplated flight.
She had slept, after Trainor's visit to her, but it had been a sleep haunted by horrible dreams in which blood predominated, and she had risen with a blinding headache.