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ToC Inconsistent spellings and other anomalies are left as in the original.

Page reference for illustration on pg 82 deliberately out of sequence, to preserve TOC link.

The arrivals went straight to the closed doors, and beat them with their wings, toc-toc, trying to enter.

She became aware that for some time she had heard a distant sound, a faint toc-toc-toc, like the sound of chopping.

They were like the toc-toc of a sort of irregular metronome, beating out of time to the jangled clamour of her thoughts.