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<D 1938>
<A D.DU MAURIER>
<T REBECCCA>
<C i>
<P 5>
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the
drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was
barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the
gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had
no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes
of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited.
No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice
windows gaped forlorn. Then, like all dreamers, I was
possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed
like a spirit through the barrier before me. The drive
wound away in front of me, twisting and turning as it had
always done, but as I advanced I was aware that a change
had come upon it; it was narrow and unkept, not the drive
that we had known. At first I was puzzled and did not under+
stand, and it was only when I bent my head to avoid the
low swinging branch of a tree that I realised what had
happe . . .