“Would he listen to mine, I wonder?”
“Try him before you go. You can leave them all here and I’ll watch over them for you to see that they don’t get loose and bother you.”
“Absolution! If it were only as easy as that! This is a haunted place.... Why should I be here at all? Why didn’t I go when I should? Why a thousand things?”
“Chance.”
“Is there any such thing? Why can’t I sleep at night yet, as I ought? Why do I still feel hunted? What’s happening to me, Ban? What’s getting ready to happen?”
“Nothing. That’s nerves.”
“Yes; I’ll try not to think of it. But at night—Ban, suppose I should come over in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep, and call outside your window?”
“I’d come down, of course. But you’d have to be careful about rattlers,” answered the practical Ban.
“Your friend, Camilla, would intercept me, anyway. I don’t think she sleeps too well, herself. Do you know what she’s doing out here?”
“She came for her health.”