"You gave him a start, Inza. The phosphorus skeleton shows plainly here, you know."
"Somehow I didn't fancy that was why he fled so quickly," she said.
"What other reason could there have been?"
"I don't know, but there seemed something familiar in his movements. It was fancy, I suppose."
"It must have been. We know no one here, save Hodge and Elsie."
"Let's go in. Somehow a feeling of apprehension is on me. I'm not often nervous, you know; but something is the matter with my nerves now."
He laughed at her, but they returned to the floor and danced out the latter part of the two-step.
When this dance was over Merry left Inza, departing to find and bring her a glass of water.
Barely was he gone when she was surprised to hear a harsh voice at her elbow saying:
"I'll not believe your ghostly garments hide nothing save the hideous skeleton I saw a few moments ago. I must confess you gave me a shock."