I thought I'd try another room, and shake it off.

I says to myself, "I'll go and walk slowly up and down the old man's room three times, from end to end, and then I shall have conquered it." I went in with the candle in my hand; but the moment I came near the bed, the air got thick with them.' 'With the faces ?' 'Yes, and I even felt that they were in the dark behind the side-door, and on the little staircase, floating away into the yard.

Then, I called you.' Mr Boffin, lost in amazement, looked at Mrs Boffin.

Mrs Boffin, lost in her own fluttered inability to make this out, looked at Mr Boffin.
'I think, my dear,' said the Golden Dustman, 'I'll at once get rid of Wegg for the night, because he's coming to inhabit the Bower, and it might be put into his head or somebody else's, if he heard this and it got about that the house is haunted.

Whereas we know better.