Michelle repeated herself brashly, “A vampire, silly. "Gracious Heaven!" exclaimed the knight, upon whom a light seemed suddenly to break. Day by day she followed the spiritual and physical contest between this man and woman. She had expected sympathetic admiration, but instead the whole Widgett family, except Teddy, expressed a common dismay. Miss Stanley walked round the garden thinking, and presently house and garden reverberated to Ann Veronica’s slamming of the front door.