Quote 64
But no one had been there. The room had been empty. Anyone who had just left it must have come out into the corridor and confronted me… (9.61)
Ah, the inexplicable moving furniture when no one else is there. That's a classic ghostly moment, and it creeps us out every time.
Quote 65
"Rest in peace," I thought, but this poor one did not, could not. (10.6)
Jennet Humfrye isn't the only lost soul wandering about. Poor little Nathaniel keeps haunting the marsh too—but he manages to keep his pain to himself, rather than taking it out on the village. We think.
Quote 66
…I caught a glimpse of someone standing. A woman. That woman. She was looking directly toward me. (10.30)
Well, that's a nice way to end the night—ghosts looking down at you as you almost drown.