He forgot all about me.

That frame of mind lasted until he came to Cornwall, and then, it seemed, I came back into his life in the strangest way.

I haunted him in the spirit, and he never once guessed that I might be there in the flesh.

Who can explain this?
"As he spoke of it he looked as though he had a grievance against me, as, perhaps, he had--from his point of view.

'You faded from my mind for twenty years,' he said.