All this would not have happened if I had drawn the curtains before going to bed." "Raoul, have you suddenly gone mad?
Wake up!" "What, still?
You would do better to help me find Erik ...

for, after all, a ghost who bleeds can always be found." The count's valet said: "That is so, sir; there is blood on the balcony." The other man-servant brought a lamp, by the light of which they examined the balcony carefully.

The marks of blood followed the rail till they reached a gutter-spout; then they went up the gutter-spout.
"My dear fellow," said Count Philippe, "you have fired at a cat." "The misfortune is," said Raoul, with a grin, "that it's quite possible.

With Erik, you never know.

Is it Erik?
Is it the cat?
Is it the ghost?
No, with Erik, you can't tell!" Raoul went on making this strange sort of remarks which corresponded so intimately and logically with the preoccupation of his brain and which, at the same time, tended to persuade many people that his mind was unhinged.