Summary

In Part 2, VIII, Birdie sits in the room that she refers to as Juliet’s room even though the museum people call it Fanny’s room. Birdie indicates it is the same room to which Ada was brought to recover after she almost drowned. Lucy insisted on caring for Ada herself. She even let her keep the kitten. Ada told Lucy that someone had been in the water with her, someone other than May, who had been the student who drowned. Ada told Lucy about the blue stone she had seen in the water. She showed Lucy the stone, actually the Radcliffe Blue, that Ada believed had saved her. It was her own amulet.

Birdie recounts the story of the day Edward discovered Birchwood Manor. Edward had been trying to raise a ghost in the woods near the house when the...