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295:, they have passionate sex in the back of a grocer's van. Nick admits that the photograph is indeed a fake: a practical joke that the new bride took rather badly at the time. He got his own back by getting her drunk while her husband was away, and having what he calls 'a rough-and-tumble on the sofa'. Although Shelagh disapproves of his youthful indiscretion, she tells Nick she loves him and wants to be together.
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photograph that she initially takes to be of herself in the role of Cesaro, but is in fact of Nick in the same role when he was a boy. Nick explains that she had reminded him of somebody - and has since realised that that person was himself. Shelagh at last understands her presumed father's dying look of horror and disbelief; with his last breath he had realised the truth.
237:, near the water's edge, which the hotel management agrees to with some reluctance. The reason becomes clear when he discovers that the chalet's previous occupant had drowned while swimming at night. Also staying at the hotel is Stoll, a drunken and obnoxious American, and his silent and apparently deaf wife. They spend every day out in a small boat, ostensibly fishing.
379:, who in the post-war years became involved with the IRA. She had tried to locate him while holiday in Ireland, but without success. In 1968, however, she contacted him by letter and he responded with a poem. After his death in 1969, du Maurier felt able to incorporate some of these incidents into her story; the details, she stressed, were "purely imaginary".
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along with Niki, a backward child whom the scientists have found to be susceptible. Niki is asked to 'stay with Ken' as his life ebbs away, and initially it seems that the experiment has been a success, with the instruments showing that Ken's energy has been captured. But after the point of death
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