Show Notes
“All was not well with the house: in some strange manner the shadow that had come between her closed eyes and the sun as she sat on the garden-bench had entered, and was establishing itself more firmly day by day.”
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“I woke again with the sense that there was something creeping up to the house, like the fog that was now thick outside my window, and seeking admittance.”
“With a sudden sinking of his heart, he heard behind him the step which he thought he had silenced for ever.”
“I went to sleep at once, and from dreamlessness awoke suddenly to a consciousness of terror and imminent peril.”
“Terror, that was slowly becoming a little more definite, terror of some dark and violent deed that was momently drawing nearer to me held me in its vice.”