Английский для смелых. Истории о духах и привидениях / Great Ghost Stories

 ‘I know what you are going to ask. I suppose this is an instance of a kind of thought-reading. Miss Wilkins called yesterday and told me of a dream her brother had as a child when they lived here, and something did no doubt make me think of that when I was awake last night listening to those horrible owls and those men talking and laughing in the shrubbery (by the way, I wish you would see if they have done any damage, and speak to the police about it); and so, I suppose, from my brain it must have got into yours while you were asleep. Curious, no doubt, and I am sorry it gave you such a bad night. You had better be as much in the fresh air as you can today.’

‘Oh, it’s all right now; but I think I will go over to the Lodge and see if I can get a game with any of them. And you?’

‘I have enough to do for this morning; and this afternoon, if I am not interrupted, there is my drawing.’

‘To be sure – I want to see that finished very much.’