We are going up to the woods at the back of the castle.

First, we'll sing our challenge, then comes the pause, to give the ghost enough time, then again and after that for the third and last time.

If there really is a ghost, he will have appeared by then.

You can understand that he won't let himself be teased by us.
So when he hasn't come, we can tell everybody what we did.

Then they'll see that it is only a superstition and that there is no wandering ghost in Wildenstein.