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Kate Clephane was wakened by the slant of Riviera sun across her bed.
The hotel was different; it was several rungs higher on the ladder than the Minorque et l'Univers, as its name -- the Petit Palais -- plainly indicated. The bedroom, too, was bigger, more modern, more freshly painted; and the corner window of the tiny adjoining _salon_ actually clipped a wedge of sea in its narrow frame.