“Much better to stay indoors and look for the ghosts,” Pierre joked.
“We don’t have ghosts in our – ”
Alice stopped.
She was just about to say ‘Castle’ when she caught her sister’s eye.
After a second’s pause, Alice added rather lamely,
“ ‒ house.”
“Well, there are lots of them in Uncle Valaire’s Château,” Pierre said, “so you had better be careful that you do not run into one when you least expect it. You might see one staring down at you when you are lying in bed.”
“Now you really are frightening me,” Alice cried.
“Pay no attention to him,” the Duc said. “I will not have all this nonsense about ghosts for the simple reason that some women are really terrified by them.”
“I expect it is when they hear people tramping about the passages,” Pierre added.
Now he was looking at his un
