human
I suppose you have no end of news to tell me. Is anyone going to be married? Is anyone dying, or anyone christened? I'll hear it all by-and-by. And who are your neighbours at Malory?
gpt
Oh, quite charming! exclaimed Miss Agnes eagerly.
human
The most mysterious people that ever came to a haunted house. You know Malory has a ghost.
gpt
Nonsense, child. Don't mind her, Mr. Sedley, said Miss Charity.
human
I _wonder_ how you can talk so foolishly.
gpt
Oh, that's nothing new. Malory's been haunted as long as _I_ can remember,
human
Well, I did not think Mr. Sedley could have talked like that!
gpt
Oh, by Jove, I _know_ it. _Everyone_ knows it that ever lived here. Malory's _full_ of ghosts. None but very queer people could think of living there; and, Miss Agnes, you were going to say----
human
Yes, they are _awfully_ mysterious. There's an old man who stalks about at night, like the ghost in Hamlet,
gpt
Highly probable, said Tom;
human
Well, hardly that, laughed Miss Agnes,
gpt
How you _can_ both talk such folly,
human
But you know they would not let Mr. Pritchard up to the house, pleaded Miss Agnes.
gpt
Mr. Pritchard, the curate, you know --this was to Tom Sedley--
human
But the ladies were in church, my dear Aggie; we _saw_ them, Mr. Sedley, _to-day_; they were in the Malory pew.
gpt
Oh, indeed? said Tom Sedley, artfully;
human
The young lady is quite beautiful, _we_ thought. I'm so sorry you were not in our seat; though, indeed, people ought not to be staring about them in church; but you would have admired her immensely.
gpt
Oh, I saw them. They were the people nearly opposite to the Verneys' seat, in the small pew? Yes, they _were_--that is, the young lady, I mean, was perfectly lovely,
human
See, the people are beginning to hurry off to church; it must be time to go,