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Freda watched the opening of the farmhouse door with dread, as there peeped out a man's face, pale, flat, puffy, with light eyes and colourless light eyelashes. Freda took an instantaneous dislike to him, and tried to draw her companion back by the sleeve.
"What do you want at this time of night? " asked, the man pompously.