CHAPTER XVI.
The Ghost and the Blind Children.
Ghosts are in the air.

It is difficult at this moment to avoid talking of ghosts.

The first question you are asked on being introduced this season is: "Do you believe in ghosts ?" I would be so glad to believe in ghosts.

This world is much too small for me.

Up to a century or two ago the intellectual young man found it sufficient for his purposes.