She said she had lived through a score of such scares, and would snap her fingers at all the comets of the heavens at once.

Sometimes it makes me tremble to hear her talk; but methinks she loveth to raise a shudder in the hearts of those who hear her.

She is a strange being.

Sometimes I almost fear to go to and fro there, albeit she treats me well, and seldom speaks harshly to me.

But men say she is above a hundred years old, and she leads so strange a life in her lonely house.