CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
Unable to sleep, to be unaware—or be unaware she was aware, she pondered with no little bewilderment—Rachel spent the remainder of the night going over her research. She reread Polidori’s thesis on somnambulism, both the Latin version and her own English translation. It had taken her weeks to translate the paper back in the NYPL, but it was something she’d felt obliged to do before reading the translations by other scholars. Where the various English versions diverged, she went back to the original, confirming the etymology and history of each Latin word, and the English words evolving from each, and how they were used in other contemporary texts. She’d taken great pains in selecting the English words to convey Polidori’s original concepts. As Aubrey had noted, the twe
