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316 plan of action. Startlingly, in the darkness, the church clock struck three.

"You must go to bed at once,” she said. "I'd no idea it was so late."

Denis clambered down the ladder, cautiously descended the creaking stairs. His room was dark; the candle had long ago guttered to extinction. He got into bed and fell asleep almost at once.