'Who then?'
'Myself. I didn't realize before I came how alive Humphrey would be in this house.'
'And that's why I want you to stay a little longer,' he said. 'You asked me just now why I invited you. Perhaps you are the only person in the world beside myself who knew really what Humphrey was. Perhaps I have been looking for that someone who knew him.'
'Janet did,' she cried.
'Janet loved him, but never knew him. And that's why Janet is jealous of you.'
'No,' Rose thought, 'that is not the reason and he knows it's not the reason. And it is not because of Humphrey that he asked me here.'
But she felt herself submitting. It was extraordinary the influence that he had. When you were with him in a room you wanted to do as he wished. He was almost double-sized, that is, he seemed to be on
