"Of course I count the ghosts. It seems to me ghosts count double—for what they were and for what they are. Somehow there were no ghosts at Poynton," Fleda went on. "That was the only fault." Fleda hesitated. "Has he informed you, dear Mrs. Gereth?"!

"Fancy your putting a question so indelicate? I should have put it—I mean in your place; but I'm quite coarse, thank God!" Fleda felt privately that she herself was coarse, or at any rate would presently have to be; and Mrs. Gereth, with a purpose that struck the girl as increasing, continued: "What, then, was the day to be? Wasn't it just one of these?" But Mrs. Gereth had obviously now had some practice in following queer movements prompted by queer feelings. She resigned herself, though she fingered the paper a moment longer. She appeared to hesitate; then she brought out: "You couldn't then, if I release you, make your message a little stronger?"

Mrs. Gereth, holding her mantle together, appeared for a while to consider. "Whatever we hear, I must go." As the cab went on she added: "But I needn't drag you to the station." "Whatever we hear, I must go." As the cab went on she added: "But I needn't drag you to the station."