A Haunting Love: A Retelling of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by Emilee Harris

Author:Emilee Harris [Harris, Emilee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

By the date of the next lecture, a mere day before the farewell breakfast, Adele assured herself she’d come up with a reasonable alternative to offer Dr. Harris. She understood his enjoyment of travel and shared an enthusiasm for it despite never gaining the opportunity to do so herself. But when they married, his proposal of which she felt certain lingered only on finding a mutually beneficial solution to this debate, he might consider establishing a single city from which to work and teach. Theosophy and his lectures surely garnered enough interest that with a bit of additional marketing his enthusiasts might be persuaded to come to him rather than he always to them.

If he must travel, perhaps a reduced schedule or one which accommodated the children’s holiday schedule. She nodded to herself. Yes, they had both been too influenced by current patterns. When looked at objectively, a solution must present itself.

“Adira,” the captain’s voice startled her after his prolonged absence, halting her reach for the door.

“You’ve chosen a poor time to return,” she remarked after taking a breath to calm her fluttering heart. “I’m on my way out, I have work.”

“I know. And I also know what you’re planning to discuss with Dr. Harris.”

Her temper flared. “So, you’ve returned only to invade and judge my thoughts, then denounce me for them? I don’t comprehend how you can in good conscience consider yourself a gentleman, Captain.”

“It is an unforgivable intrusion made with noble intention. I’m concerned about you and worry you are about to make a detrimental decision.”

“Because it runs counter to what you want.”

“Because you are being deceived.”

“That again. Captain, I contend it is your own jealousy and dislike of Dr. Harris which compels you to maintain this opinion. What proof have you to offer?”

“The seance.”

“The seance?” she huffed. “What do you know about that? You refused to even entertain the thought of attending. I recall I made the offer.”

“You did. But did you honestly believe I would let you attend such an event unescorted and without protection?”

She hesitated. The air in the parlor had seemed heavy in the way her room did now, but she dismissed it as an effect of all the drapes and doors being shut, along with the overabundant use of candles. “If you were at the seance, why did you not offer some sort of assistance during the spectral commotion?”

The wind sighed through the eaves. “Because there was no spectral commotion, my dear, it was a show meant to enthrall, nothing more.”

“But I saw it all myself!” she insisted. “Avery’s hands were still upon Mrs. Barnes’ when the bell rang.”

“The bell he placed on the ground on the far side of the table where you wouldn’t see him use his foot to ring it.”

Her eyes widened. What a ridiculous… then again, she supposed it possible. She never looked at the floor during the seance, and the table’s cloth draped to the ground. She recalled to mind other events of the seance. “The candles doused themselves.

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