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Vicky had said "Hush! " but it was an unnecessary precaution, for I was / too stunned to articulate. I peered at her in the darkness and then, / unable to control my desire for certainty I flashed my little pocket / light on her for an instant.
"Don't! " she whispered, putting her hands up before her face.