While I hesitated, I saw--I saw--" She broke down again.

There was no doubt about the genuineness of her terror.

She seemed somehow to have shrunken into the semblance of a smaller woman.

The pupils of her eyes were distended, she was white almost to the lips.

When she recommenced her story, her voice was fainter.
"I saw a pair of hands--just hands--no arms--nothing but hands--come out of the darkness! They gripped me by the throat.