Margaret was on edge the next few days. She was not sleeping very well at night. Nightmares occurred more often than they did not and, although Anthony did his best to help her sleep peacefully, she rarely got more than three hours of sleep at a time. She was becoming more and more sleep deprived. Dark circles marred the brown beauty of her eyes. Any sudden noise or movement startled her, and she was falling asleep randomly, sometimes while reading a novel or eating her breakfast.
Vernon mixed up a special concoction to help her. "It is a very effective recipe that my uncle created," he told her, "he would give it to his wife when she could not sleep. She had broken her leg, you see, and I imagine it is very difficult to sleep when intense pain keeps shooting sporadically through your bod
