But not a living creature was in sight.
"It's enough to make one's hair stand on end!" he exclaimed, as he came slowly back.

"Where can she have got to?
She was here--here, by the gate--not twenty seconds ago, only a few yards from where I was sitting.

Don't talk to me about fancy; that's sheer nonsense.

I saw her as distinctly as I see you now, and I should know her again directly if I saw her a year hence.

Of all inexplicable things!" There was no more lying down.