"When I first arrived, and he came out to the porch to meet me, there was Something standing by him, which looked so real, Bill, that I thought it really was a woman of flesh and blood.

I nearly said to him, 'Who's that?
Introduce me.'" "D'you mean you think you actually see spirits, even when you're not setting out to do so, Bubbles ?" asked.

Bill.
She had never said that to him before.

But then this was the first time she had ever talked to him as freely and as frankly as she was talking now.
"Yes, that's exactly what I do mean," she said.

"It's a sort of power that grows--and oh, Bill, I'd do anything in the world to get rid of it! But this woman whom I saw standing by Lionel Varick in the porch was not a spirit.