Chapter 18 No.18

Foreshadowed

Alida awoke, knowing what was to happen. She had dreamed of it, just before daylight, and lay in bed stupefied by the horror of it, living, again and again, through each frightful detail. It had happened-there, in the very room, and before the children; the noise of it had startled them; and then she woke and knew she had been dream