Jenny put her hand lightly on the guide’s arm as if to calm her. “We know, love, but we have to go. I could stay here all day listening to you, but we have to be somewhere” she explained. “We’ll be back….”
“But I only live….I feel like I only live …. while there are people I can show the house to, and want to see it, and trust me…” the guide appealed to them plaintively. “This is my life. I feel like I only come alive while people are wandering through the house, and thinking about the house, and listening to me…..I only live while the past is in peoples’ minds….I only live while I am telling people my stories……Can’t you stay even a short while longer….?”
Chris said with a surly tone “No, we have to go”
“You must come back at night, sometime, and I can show you through by candlelight! T
