I clear breakfast at ten o'clock. I set on lunch at one. Dinner I set on at six. It's ten o'clock. - Shirley Jackson

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

It’s wrong to hate them,” Constance said, “it only weakens you,

"We couldn't even hear you, in the night....
No one could. No one lives any nearer than town. No one else will come any nearer than that."
"I know," Eleanor said tiredly.
"In the night," Mrs. Dudley said, and smiled outright. "In the dark," she said..