Now she felt different. It was almost as if she could feel herself coming alive, her brain began to work and she was no longer sleepy.
Slowly she opened her eyes and for a moment it was difficult to imagine where she could be.
It was a room that she had never seen before and the bed that she was lying in was very large. There were two posts at the end of it reaching right to the ceiling.
The sunshine was coming through the curtains, which were only half-closed and the windows were open onto the verandah.
Suddenly Dominica was aware that she was in the room that Lord Hawkston had spoken about, the ‘Palm Room’, that he had built for himself and which Gerald had closed up.
At the thought of Lord Hawkston a little tremor went through her.
Now she remembered!
Slowly she recalled the cont
