Shall I show you where the place is ?" Her face, when I began, had shown such changes I was startled; but by the time I had finished a sort of apathy had fallen across it and her voice sounded hollow as she cried: "What are you telling me?
A secret entrance we knew nothing about and the Misses Quinlan using it to hunt about these halls at night! Romantic, to be sure.

Yes, let me see the place.

It is very interesting and very inconvenient.

Will you tell Nixon, please, to have this passage closed ?" I felt a chill.

If it was interest she felt it was a very forced one.
She even paused to take off her hat.