There was a faint click, and suddenly a light appeared in a doorway that was opening wider. A woman stepped out in a dressing gown hanging loose over a white nightdress. I froze, and the woman did, too, wearing an expression of such bafflement I thought I'd got the wrong house altogether. "Mrs England?", I said.

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