Dr.Coombe she had worshipped, yet his death had not affected her as much as might have been feared.

Perhaps it was one of her compensations that death to her was not quite what it is to the more normal consciousness.

It was noticeable that she always spoke of the doctor as if he were in the next room.

Her devotion to him had been caused by his success in partially relieving her of the most distressing burden of her disordered brain--the delusion of persecution.

Aunt Amy knew that somewhere there existed a mysterious power known vaguely as "They" who sought unceasingly to injure her.