Now your life here, George, must be a singularly uneventful one." "Not during the last six months," Lord Ashleigh remarked, with a sigh.
"Even these last few days have been exciting enough.

I must confess that they have left me with a queer sort of nervousness.

I find myself listening intently sometimes,--conscious, as it were, of the influence or presence of some indefinite danger." "Very interesting," the Professor murmured.

"Spiritualism, as an exact science, has always interested me very much." Lady Ashleigh made a little grimace.
"Don't encourage George," she begged.

"He is much too superstitious, as it is." There was a brief silence.