Quote 58
My story is almost done. There is only the last thing left to tell. And that I can scarcely bring myself to write about. (12.16)
Oh yeah, just one more tiny thing—the brutal death of his wife and child. No biggie. Hardly even worth telling, right?
Quote 59
she would have been branded as a witch and local legends and tales were still abroad and some extravagant folklore still half-believed in. (4.19)
Arthur dismisses the villagers as steeped in silly folklore, but who's the one believing in ghosts by the end?
Quote 60
Who she was—or what—and how she had vanished, such questions I did not ask myself. (5.28)
On the one hand, okay, we're not sure we'd want to know the answers to those questions either. On the other hand—come on, show a little curiosity, Arthur!