She seemed to come when and where she listed, whether in the glimpses of the moon or the full sunlight of mid-day.

She never passed beyond the limits of the old lodge, and never broke the silence of her coming and goings.

None of the present inhabitants of "The Wilderness" had seen her save the Professor, but Nitocris had often shivered with a sudden chill when she chanced to be in her invisible presence, and at such times she would often say to her father: "There is something cold in the room, Dad.

I suppose your friend the Lady Alicia is paying you a visit.

I _do_ wish she would allow me to make her acquaintance." And to this he would sometimes reply with perfect gravity: "Yes, she has just come in: she is standing by the window yonder." And this had happened so often that Nitocris, like her father, had come to regard the wraith, or astral body, as the Professor deemed it, of the unhappy lady almost as a member of the family.