At first I was puzzled and did not understand, and it was only when I bent my head to avoid the low swinging branch of a tree that I realized what had happened. 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 unkempt, not the drive that we had known. Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn. 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. There was a padlock and chain upon the gate. 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. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
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