CHAPTER TENTo Karina’s surprise, when she went to bed, she slept.
She thought that she would stay awake hugging to herself the new-found knowledge of her love or questioning Cousin Felix’s strange and unaccountable behaviour,
But instead she fell into a troubled sleep in which her dreams chased one another in wild chaotic confusion and she awoke with a start to hear her own voice, sharp with terror, crying,
“Don’t hurt him! Don’t hurt him!”
She opened her eyes and found the pale morning sun seeping through the sides of the curtain and she realised that in her dream she had been afraid for Garland, afraid that Felix might injure him.
‘I am being ridiculous,’ she told herself severely. ‘How could Felix hurt anyone so rich and so powerful as Garland Holt?’
She tried to laugh away her fe
