MS-UoR-1552-4

[0200] M discovered facing front at R.

[0201] Pause.

[0208] (Pause.) [0209] Slip out ^and into the little church by the south
door, always closed ^locked at that hour, and walk up and down^,
the corresponding arm ^{up & down, His poor arm.} [0210] (Pause.) [0211] Sometimes she would
halt, as one frozen by some motion ^phantom of the mind, and
stand stock still till she could move on again ^{pass on move again.}. [0212] But
many also were the evenings when the pacing continued unbroken, till she vanished ^{she paced without pause up & down, up & down, before vanishing}
the way she had come.

[0213] (Pause.) [0214] No sound of course. [0215] (Pause.) [0216] None at least to
be heard. [0217] (Pause.) [0218] The appearance ^semblance? [0219] (Pause. [0220] Begins
pacing. [0222] After one ² length^s halts facing front at L^R.
[0223] Pause.) [0228] Grey rather than white, [0224] Faint, but by no
means invisible, in a certain light. [0225] (Pause.) ^{[0226] Given Granted the right light. [0227] (Pause.)} [0228] Grey
rather than white, a light shade of grey. [0229] (Pause.)
[0230] Ragged ^Tattered. [0231] (Pause.) [0232] A tangle of rags ^tatters. [0233] (Pause.) [0234] A faint
tangle of pale grey rags ^tatters. [0235] (Pause.) [0236] Watch it - (Pause.)

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[0236] Watch her pass before a ^the candelabrum, how the ^its flames,
the^ir light of the flames...like moon through ^passing cloud.
[0236|001] (Pause.) [0236|002] Or mist. [0237] (Pause.) [0238] Thus not long ^{soon then} h^after having
gone, as though never been ^there, began to walk, along the
south transept, up and down, at nightfall. [⁁]^{up & down, up & down, His that poor arm. [0239] (Pause.) [0240] At nightfall.} [0241] (Pause.)
[0241|001] Nightfall. [0241|002] (Pause.) [0242] That is to say, at certain seasons
ot^f the year, during evensong ^Vespers. [0243] (Pause.) [0244] Necessarily.

[0245] (Pause. [0246] Starts pacing. [0247] ^{After 1 length} Halts facing front after four steps ^{at L.}
[0248] Pause.) [0249] Mrs Winter, whom the reader will remember,
Mrs Winter, one autumn Sunday evening, on sitting down
with her daughter to supper with her daughter after
worship, after a few half-hearted mouthfuls laid down
her knife and fork and bowed her head. [0249|001] (Pause.) [0250] What
is it, Mother, said the daughter, a very strange girl,
though scarcely a girl any more...(Brokenly.)

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[0250] Dread-
fully unhappy ^-... [0251] (^Pause. [0252] Normal voice.) [0253] What is it, Mother, are
you not feeling yourself? [0255] Mrs W ^(doubleyoo) did not at once reply.
[0256] But finally, raising her head and fixing Emily ^Amy - the
daughter's given name, as the reader will remember -
fixing Emily ^Amy full in the et^ye, she said - (pause) -
she murmured, Emily ^Amy, did you notice anything ^... strange ^{unusual strange} in
church this evening ^{at evensong}? [0257] Emily ^Amy: No, Mother, I did not.

[0258] Mrs W: Perhaps it was just my fancy. [0259] Emily ^Amy: Just what
exactly, Mother, did you perhaps fancy it was? [0260] (Pause.)
[0261] Just what exactly, Mother, did you perhaps fancy it
was you saw ^noticed. [0263] Mrs W: You noticed nothing unusual ^strange?
[0264] Emily: No, Mother, I did not, to put it mildly. [0265] Mrs W:

[0265] Mrs W: What do you mean, Emily, to put it mildly, what
can you possibly mean, Emily, to put it mildly? [0266] Emily ^Amy:
I mean, Mother, that to say I noticed nothing unusual ^strange is
indeed to put it mildly. [0267] For I noticed nothing of any
kind, unusual ^strange or otherwise. [0268] I saw nothing, heard nothing,