"How do you know if that is true?"
"Well, sur, that es what people do say. They say that Mrs. Trewinion and the passon went first into the library and then to the church, and there the passon ded read the funeral service over again, and took care to turn the Prayer-book upside down so that the ghost couldn't rise any more."
"And was it seen afterwards?"
"No sur, it weren't; but some don't think 'twas the passon laid the ghost, but 'cause Debrah Teague had summin to do wi' it, and the passon had a row wi' her."
"Well, what happened afterwards?"
"Things went on quiet for a bit, sur; then we heerd as 'ow Maaster Wilfred, who took 'pon him the place ov squire, was plagin' Miss Ruth to marry un, and she wudden, then it laiked out that she said she wudden marry un 'till ten year after Maaster Roger 'ad gone."
"My dream, my dream!" I thought. Surely the hand of God was in this; but I did not know all then!
"Well, are the ten years up yet?" I said, as quietly as I could.
"'Twas up 'bout a month ago, sur; and then, sur we've heerd as 'ow a strange thing happened."
"What?"