"I daresay you'll think me very illogical, but in this one case I think Pegler _did_ see what is commonly called a ghost.

And I'll tell you why I think so." Both men turned and looked at him fixedly, both in their several ways being much surprised by his words.
"I have discovered," said Sir Lyon in a rather singular tone, "that this woman Pegler saw nothing for the first few days she occupied the haunted room." Panton stared at the speaker with an astonished expression.

"What exactly do you mean to imply ?" he asked.
Sir Lyon hesitated.

He was, in some of his ways, very old-fashioned.

It was not pleasant to him to bring a lady's name into a discussion.