'You are admiring our famous chimney-piece, I see.

May I ask, Mr.Westwick, how you find yourself in the hotel, this time?
Have the supernatural influences affected your appetite again ?' 'The supernatural influences have spared me, this time,' Henry answered.

'Perhaps you may yet find that they have affected some other member of the family.' He spoke gravely, resenting the familiar tone in which the manager had referred to his previous visit to the hotel.
'Have you just returned ?' he asked, by way of changing the topic.
'Just this minute, sir.

I had the honour of travelling in the same train with friends of yours who have arrived at the hotel--Mr.and Mrs.
Arthur Barville, and their travelling companions.

Miss Lockwood is with them, looking at the rooms.