“Nothing to trouble me.”
“Exactly. You are not afraid of being alone with your thoughts?”
“O! no.”
“Even in the dark?”
“Even in the dark.”
“If you were conscience-stricken, on the other hand, you might dread your own company unspeakably?”
“It is very likely, I think.”
“Especially in the dark?”
“I daresay.”
“So much so as to be urged to any means to escape it, perhaps?”