Then Timmy got up and removed the cup and its cover; and suddenly the guest became aware that only four people at the table had taken soup--himself, Mr.Tosswill, Jack, and Timmy.

What an odd thing! They were all rather silent, and Radmore began to have a strange, uncanny feeling that none of them could see him, that he was a wraith, projected out of the past into the present.

It was a novel and most disconcerting sensation.

But no one glancing at his keen face, now illumined with a half humorous expression of interest, would have guessed the mixed and painful feelings which possessed him.
He stole a look to his left.

Janet, in his eyes, was almost unchanged.