Summary

Alice is the third person to deny that Charles had seen the specter, and the meeting leaves him disheartened. He drives around, too fearful to return to the house on Yarrow, and not ready to face Tina either. He drives to his father’s grave site and sits there for a time wondering how many ghosts were there. Charles had expected that subsequent sightings of the ghost would bother him less than the first one, but that isn’t the case. While it still makes no noise, it returns again and again despite the fact that Charles changes rooms every night. It even shows up in the basement. One night he even gets up and touches it, but nothing changes. Finally, he begins calling his siblings one at...