A NEW IDEA KATE slowly came back to consciousness.

She was conscious of her body, sore from head to foot, with plenty of pain in definite spots.

Her first clear thought was that she was such a big woman; it seemed to her that she filled the room, when she was one bruised ache from head to heels.

Then she became conscious of a moving bundle on the bed beside her, and laid her hand on it to reassure herself.

The size and shape of the bundle were not reassuring.
"Oh, Lord!" groaned Kate.