By Jove, it is three o'clock; I will go and see Miss Granger.

She's a woman, not a female ghost at any rate, though she is a freethinker--which," he added as he slowly struggled off the couch, "is a very foolish thing to be." Very shakily, for he was sadly knocked about, Geoffrey hobbled down the long narrow room and through the door, which was ajar.

The opposite door was also set half open.

He knocked softly, and getting no answer pushed it wide and looked in, thinking that he had, perhaps, made some mistake as to the room.

On a sofa placed about two-thirds down its length, lay Beatrice asleep.