7/24 It upsets her, and I won't be answerable for the consequences." "It is very strange," said Grace, looking at her brother intently, "very strange that old Margery and Agnes Darling should both see an apparition in this house. There must be something in it." "Of course there is--didn't I tell you so--an overheated imagination. I have known more extraordinary optical illusions than that in my time. She will never get over her scare in this world. She keeps a light in her room all night, and makes one of the maids sleep with her, and won't be alone a moment, night or day." "Ah!" said Doctor Frank, with professional phlegm. |