31.   Her gaze rose questioningly to Miss Morton, who nodded silently in the direction of an array of small bottles that littered the bedside table.

32.   An electric kettle and all the paraphernalia for making tea and coffee stood on a bedside table alongside a biscuit-barrel and bowl of cream roses.

33.   He came back to the bedside and picked up an already opened bottle of red wine from the bedside table.

34.   The glasses and the bottle of wine were slammed back down on the bedside table and then his hand around her wrist was a shock.

35.   After a few minutes Jack groped for the bedside table.

36.   Hours later he reached for the bedside table again.

37.   Penry Vaughan studied her in brooding silence for a moment, then glanced at the forgotten tray on the bedside table.

38.   Ignoring her, he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett.

39.   Not daring to put on the light, she sat up and felt for the glass of water on the bedside table.

40.   Fabia reached over to the bedside table for her watch.