Well, she would soon be leaving Lacville! What a pity those friends of hers had given up their Swiss holiday! It would have been so jolly if they could have gone on there together.
He got tired of lying in bed.

What a long night, as well as a very short night, it had been! He rose and made his way down to the primitive bath-room.

It would be delightful to have any sort of bath, and the huge zinc basin had its points-- As Chester went quickly back to his room, instead of feeling refreshed after his bath, he again experienced the disagreeable sensation that he was not alone.

This time he felt as if he were being accompanied by an invisible presence.

It was a very extraordinary and a most unpleasant feeling, one which Chester had never experienced before, and it made him afraid--afraid he knew not of what.
Being the manner of man he was, he began to think that he must be ill--that there must be something the matter with his nerves.