The Red Court Farm Author:Henry Wood Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Clara Lake laughed. She was accustomed to witnessing her husband's free rattling manners with others, but not a shadow of jealousy had yet arisen. She believed h... more »is love to be hers, just as truly and exclusively as hers was his; and nothing as yet had shaken the belief. CHAPTER III. Clara Lake's Dream. It was certainly a singular dream, well worthy of being recorded. Taken in conjunction with its notable fulfilment, few dreams have been so remarkable. At least, if it may be deemed that subsequent events did work it out. The reader must judge for himself. Mr. and Mrs. Lake retired to rest as usual, taking no supper. When they had fish or meat with tea, supper was not served. On this evening he drank some wine-and-water before going to bed; she touched nothing. Therefore it cannot be thought that she suffered from nightmare. It was a singular dream; let me repeat the assertion. And it was in the earlier part of the night that it visited her. How soon after she went to sleep, how late, there were no means of knowing. Part of the evening's doings came to her again in her sleep. She thought that Mrs. Chester called, went on to the Jupps' house, returned to drink tea, and gave the invitation to go to her house at Guild on the Sunday—all just as it had been in reality. Clara also thought that she felt an insuperable objection to going, in spite of having accepted the invitation. Not the vague idea that had presented itself to her awake, the half-wish that she had not made the engagement, but a strong, The dream is not fiction: it is simply transcribed, even to the minutest particular. irrepressible conviction that the going would bring her evil— yet accompanied with a conviction, a knowledge, so to say, that she should go, that it was her fate to go, and that she ...« less