"No, no; it was not fancy," she said. "I saw it plainly enough. I was not thinking of it as I spoke, and I saw it when the moon got behind the cloud. It was in my father's room."
At that moment she started again. A voice so close behind her that it seemed to spring from the ground said: "Miss Mildmay, where are you? Oh, here you are!"
And Captain Murpoint came up.
"How interested you look! What are you talking about?"
"Ghosts," said Leicester, fixing his dark, scrutinizing eyes upon him. "Did you not hear Miss Mildmay call out?"
"No," said the captain, innocently, "I only just came up."
But he had been close beside them for some minutes, and had not only heard Violet's low cry of terror, but the whole of the conversation.