Night Of Fear

The story is about an innocent abroad. A quiet Englishwoman, unmarried and middle-aged, finds herself in a small hotel in south-west France.

After taking a nice hot bath, she goes into the wrong hotel bedroom and gets locked in.

She realizes there is no escape from the room. At that moment, she sees a man lying in the bed asleep. She does not know how to behave in a situation like this.

She becomes very worried. If she wakes the man, people will know she has been in a room with a strange man.

What will people think of her? What will the man do to her? She decides to hide under the bed until morning.

She lies quietly under the bed thinking about these questions, when suddenly she sneezes. The man does not wake up, and she doesn't understand.

She cannot stand the tension any longer and she jumps up and puts the light on, only to find that the man is dead. She manages to keep her cool and to find a way of opening the door.