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Dog could not get to sleep. It was peering out of Adam's bedroom window when it saw the man.
The man looked up and saw Dog.
Dog opened its mouth.
The man put a finger to his lips, smiling like a knife.
Dog went to sleep.
The next day, news went around that there was a newcomer in Tadfield. He would be taking over Jasmine Cottage from the Pulsifers, who had since found their own house, a bigger one, in anticipation of the children. It was rumoured that he was an actor and a pouf, but everyone put up with him relatively well because he smiled so sweetly and seemed generally harmless.
His name was Lionel Zephyr.