The strange gaunt creature had for his imagination very much the fascination that a ghost would have had.

We care to hear all about a ghost, however trivial the details may be, but we desire no personal contact.

Caius had no wish to meet this woman, for whom he felt repulsion, but he would have been interested to hear Neddy Morrison describe her least action, for Neddy was almost the only person who had constant access to her house.
Morrison, however, had very little to tell about Mrs.Day.She had come home, and was living very much as she had lived before.

The absence of her children did not appear to make great difference in her dreary life.
The old labourer could not say that her husband treated her kindly or unkindly.

He was not willing to affirm that she was glad to be out of the asylum, or that she was sorry.