"I've only seen her clearly twice.

But during the week that I've been here, I've often felt that she was close to Lionel Varick." "And what's your theory about her?
Why does she hate him, I mean ?" "My theory-- ?" the girl hesitated again.

"I should think it's someone he was fond of when he was a young man, and whom he treated badly.

She's ugly enough now--but then women do change so." "Bubbles," he uttered her name very seriously.
"Yes, Bill ?" "Surely you can stop yourself seeing these kind of strange, dreadful, unnatural things ?" Bubbles did not answer all at once.

And then she said: "Yes--and no, Bill! It sometimes happens that I see what you would call a ghost without wishing to see it; yet I confess that sometimes I _could_ stop myself.