41.   Ask a class to shut their eyes, play them a recording of footsteps and then ask what they have heard.

42.   He was leaning back, his face in the sun, his eyes shut.

43.   I shut my eyes, too full of sorrow to move.

44.   Maybe I did fall asleep for a moment or two when I shut my eyes hoping to enter my dream again.

45.   Refusing to shut her eyes in case she succumbed again, Sarella fixed her gaze on a point over his shoulder on the scarlet wall opposite.

46.   She shut her eyes then, letting this wanton fire creep through her.

47.   If only she could shut these eyes and open them on the past and try again.

48.   Caroline sank down on to the edge of the bed and shut her eyes tightly, trying to block out the humiliating scene, but it was impossible.

49.   Caroline shut her eyes tightly, trying to block out the sudden image of Nicolo and a woman whose face she could not see.

50.   Seconds later they were off again, and she shut her eyes tight, pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet.