I will be a mere spectator.

The old vault of our ancestors will be opened, I presume, captain ?' 'It is opened.' 'I must see it--and ruminate on what we once were: it is a thing I like doing.

The ghosts of our dead--Ah, what was that ?' 'I heard nothing.' 'I thought I heard a footstep behind us.' They stood still; but the road appeared to be quite deserted, and likely to continue so for the remainder of that evening.

They walked on again, speaking in somewhat lower tones than before.
'Will the late Sir William's death delay the wedding much ?' asked the younger man curiously.
De Stancy languidly answered that he did not see why it should do so.

Some little time would of course intervene, but, since there were several reasons for despatch, he should urge Miss Power and her relatives to consent to a virtually private wedding which might take place at a very early date; and he thought there would be a general consent on that point.
'There are indeed reasons for despatch.