At least no visible one was ever found open." "What about the woman, Bess ?" I asked.

"How do you account for her persistency in clinging to a place her employers invariably fled from?
She seems to have been always on hand with an offer of her services." "Bess is not a young woman, but she is a worker of uncommon ability, very rigid and very stoical.

She herself accounts for her willingness to work in this house by her utter disbelief in spirits, and the fact that it is the one place in the world which connects her with her wandering and worthless husband.

Their final parting occurred during Mr.
Dennison's tenancy, and as she had given the wanderer the Franklin Street address, you could not reason her out of the belief that on his return he would expect to find here there.

That is what she explained to Mr.Searles." "You interest me, Mr.Robinson.Is she a plain woman?
Such a one as a man would not be likely to return to ?" "No, she is a very good-looking woman, refined and full of character, but odd, very odd,--in fact, baffling." "How baffling ?" "I never knew her to look any one directly in the eye.