'Careful. You'll fall right in.'

 

'I can't see any ghost,' she said. 'You were lying to me all that time.'

 

'But I never said it lived down the well.'

 

'Where is it, then?'

 

5

 

We both looked around at the trees and shrubs. The light in the garden had grown

very dim. Eventually I pointed to a small clearing some ten yards away.

 

'Just there I saw it. Just there.'

 

We stared at the spot.

 

'What did it look like?'

 

'I couldn't see very well. It was dark.'

 

'But you must have seen something.'

 

'It was an old woman. She was just standing there, watching me.'