The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy

Copyright, 1907
By Herbert B. Turner & Co.
Copyright, 1911
By Small, Maynard & Company (incorporated)

I am eight years older now. It had never occurred to me that I am advancing in life and experience until, in setting myself to recall the various details of the affair, I suddenly remembered my timid confusion before the haughty mien of the clerk at Keith Prowse's.
I had asked him:
Have you any amphitheatre seats for the Opera to-night?
He did not reply. He merely put his lips together and waved his hand slowly from side to side.
Not perceiving, in my simplicity, that he was thus expressing a sublime pity for the ignorance which my demand implied, I innocently proceeded:
Nor balcony?