"It's a chilly, ghostly subject.

It makes me shiver.

I get little comfort out of it." "Ghostly it is, if you mean a thing of spirits," said Barry, "but chilly! Why chilly ?" Then he added to himself in an undertone: "I wonder! I wonder! I wish sometimes I knew more." "Sometimes ?" cried Paula.

"Always!" she added passionately.

"It's a dreadful business to me.