The Ghost by Arnold Bennet Chapter 7 Page 2

also on that night. I remembered his outburstagainst Rosetta Rosa. I remembered Emmeline Smith’s outburst against Rosetta Rosa. I remembered the vision in the crystal, and Rosa’s sudden and astoundingly apt breaking in upon that vision. I remembered the scene between Rosa and Sir Cyril Smart, and her almost hysterical impulse to pierce her own arm with the little jewelled dagger. I remembered the glint of the dagger which drew my attention to it on the curb of an Oxford Street pavement afterwards. I remembered the disappearance of Sir Cyril Smart. I remembered all the inexplicable circumstances of Alresca’s strange decay, and his equally strange recovery. I remembered that his recovery had coincided with an entire absence of communication between himself and Rosa� . And then she comes! And within an hour he is dead! “I love her.