He has gone into the land of ghosts--or are we the ghosts, I wonder, who loiter here ?" Mannering answered her without a touch of levity.

He, too, was unusually serious.
"We have the better part," he said.

"Yet Borrowdean is one of those men who know very well how to play upon the heartstrings.

A human being is like a musical instrument to him.

He knows how to find out the harmonies or strike the discords." She turned away.
"I am superstitious," she murmured, with a little shiver.