“Now that’s enough of that talk,” Nanny interposed sharply. “You know as well as I do that it frightens Nelly and Bessie and we’ll have them screaming all over the place that they’ve seen the ‘White Lady’, or the ‘Grey Monk’, or some such nonsense.”
“Have you ever seen a ghost?” Lara asked.
“If there’s people creeping about the corridors at The Priory, they’re not ghosts!” Nanny said sharply.
As if she thought that she had said too much, she walked out of the bedroom leaving Lara alone with Georgina.
“Nelly’s terrified of ghosts,” she said in a low voice. “Once I dressed up in a sheet and said ‘boo!’ to Nelly when she came into the room. She screamed and dropped a tray and Nanny was very angry.”
Lara laughed.
“I am not surprised. If people are frightened it makes them do all sorts of
