Then a voice came from behind the curtains around the great bed.

Then he looked round and saw a great bed in the corner.

His eyes flicked in the direction of the great bed.

Upon a great bed lay the figure of a man asleep.

Not the ghost of a sound rose up from the great bed.

"Is it a great bed for doing what we want to do?"

The room had one weak light over by the door, and another above the great bed.

He climbed out of the great bed and came over to her.

He came up and sat on the edge of the great bed beside her.

Had he been too rough with her last night, or rather this morning, in the great bed?