Never had she been spoken to like that.

She rose as though to go, gathering up the folds of her skirt and waving the feathers of her dingy bonnet with dignity, but, changing her mind, she sat down again and said, in a haughty voice: "I'll tell you what happened.

The ghost was annoyed again!" Thereupon, as M.Richard was on the point of bursting out, M.
Moncharmin interfered and conducted the interrogatory, whence it appeared that Mme.

Giry thought it quite natural that a voice should be heard to say that a box was taken, when there was nobody in the box.
She was unable to explain this phenomenon, which was not new to her, except by the intervention of the ghost.

Nobody could see the ghost in his box, but everybody could hear him.