The Quiet Heart
“As she lay striving to clear her brain and to think what it was memory asserted itself, and she received a shock.She could recall a hand on her arm, shaking her ... not particularly gently, but at the same time not ungently. The room was dark, except for feeble firelight, and someone who appeared enormous in that distorting twilight bent over her and spoke to her urgently.“You’ll have to go upstairs to bed, Mrs. Fairlie. There’s no more fuel, and I can’t keep the fire going any longer. It’s col...d, and you’ll catch a chill ... we’ll both catch a chill! I’m sorry, because you were sleeping so peacefully.”Alison struggled up, but she was too confused to be aware of having done anything outrageous. That was to come later, when she was more alert. All she could do was stammer something that sounded like:“Did I fall asleep? How silly! What time is it? You should have wakened me!”“I hadn’t the heart to waken you, and it’s two o’clock.”“Two o’clock?” She gasped at him, and then she sprang to her feet in horror.“Mr.MoreLess
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