'I have seen someone descend the stairs. If he did not come from your study, he issued from that room in which—in which——' She shuddered. 'I mean from the spare bedroom.'
'No one has been with me.'
'But he came down the staircase, slowly and silently. like a shadow, and passed me.'
'I have seen and heard no one.'
'And yet, there has been someone in the house.'
Philip thought, and then said: 'Miss Cusworth, your nerves have been over-wrought. You have been imposed on by your imagination.'
'But—the garden door. I found it open. I have just locked it. The figure went out through it.'
'Did you distinguish who it was?'
'No, he came from the best bedroom, wearing dear uncle's—I mean Mr. Pennycomequick's overcoat and hat.'
Philip again mused.