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Lily never knew whether the night that she had fetched Nurse to come to Vonnie had witnessed the culminating episode in that series of giant nightmares, Vonnie's earaches -- or whether it only stood out in her memory from the acute sensation of exquisite relief that it had finally afforded her.
At all events, it was after one of the earache nights that a dreadful thought first came to her.