"That's worse. But why, mother?"
"When I saw my Lady yesterday, George, she looked to me--and I may say at me too--as if the step on the Ghost's Walk had almost walked her down."
"Come, come! You alarm yourself with old-story fears, mother."
"No I don't, my dear. No I don't. It's going on for sixty year that I have been in this family, and I never had any fears for it before. But it's breaking up, my dear; the great old Dedlock family is breaking up."
"I hope not, mother."

"But why, mother?"
"When I saw my Lady yesterday, George, she looked to me as if the step on the Ghost's Walk had almost walked her down."
"Come, come! You alarm yourself with old-story fears, mother."
"No, I don't, my dear. It's going on for sixty year that I have been in this family, and I never had any fears for it before. But it's breaking up, my dear."
"I hope not, mother."
