"That was why I came over--I wanted to clasp a human hand and hear a human voice.
"There seem to be so many INHUMAN presences about tonight.

Even my own dear house was full of them.

They fairly elbowed me out.

So I fled over here for companionship of my kind." "You were right not to go in, though, Mistress Blythe.

Leslie wouldn't have liked it.