Terniloff was the only one, however, who made a suggestion.
"We might have a battue in the wood," he proposed.
"I am not sure," Dominey told them, "that the character of the wood is not more interesting than the ghost who is supposed to dwell in it.

You remember how terrified the beaters were yesterday at the bare suggestion of entering it?
For generations it has been held unclean.

It is certainly most unsafe.

I went in over my knees on the outskirts of it this morning.

Shall we say half-past ten in the gun room ?" Seaman followed his host out of the room.
"My friend," he said, "you must not allow these local circumstances to occupy too large a share of your thoughts.