The financial situation was becoming more and more serious for her, and as yet Solomon Cobb had not made known his decision in the matter of the mortgage.
During the week following Miss Timpson's departure Thankful spent several nights in the rooms the former had vacated, lying awake and listening for sounds from the back bedroom.

She heard none.

No ghost snored for her benefit.

Then other happenings, happenings of this world, claimed her attention and she dropped psychical research for the time.
The first of these happenings was the most surprising.

One forenoon Kenelm returned from an errand to the village bringing the morning's mail with him.