Go away.

I want to go to sleep." The woman sighed softly, extinguished the light, and groped her way to the door in the dark.

Veronica was very sleepy, as she said, but somehow after her maid had gone away, she became wakeful again for a time.

The cat had remained on the foot of the bed, and its soft purring disturbed her a little, because she was accustomed to absolute silence.

There had been a curious cross-fitting of her dream and of the little realities of Elettra's entrance.