I'm not like I used to be, quite.

I find--since--since that business, I can't sleep without a light.

I rather get the--the horrors in the dark." Incoherently, Meredith made a compassionate exclamation and turned to go, and, as he left the room, his eye fell upon the mantel-piece.

The position of the photographs had been altered, and the picture of the girl who looked straight out at you was gone.

The mere rim of it was visible behind the image of an old gentleman with a sardonic mouth.
An hour later, Tom came back, and spoke through the closed door.