The Time of the Ghost by Jones Diana Wynne
Author:Jones, Diana Wynne [Jones, Diana Wynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult, Horror, Childrens, Paranormal, Mystery
ISBN: 9780062200839
Goodreads: 13425519
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: 1981-01-01T08:00:00+00:00
âHe called himself that because he thought we might have forgotten him, I think,â Cart said. âAs if anyone could forget Howard! And when I read it first, I thought it was just Howard being silly. Then Mrs. Gill phoned, and my spine crawled. I thought, It canât be! Itâs a day early, Moniganâs cheated!â
âTwo days early,â said the patient. âIt happened last night.â
âYes, I know,â Cart said, sitting soberly down again. âBut itâs occurred to me that there have been two leap years since.â
A gray chill seemed to settle over the little glassed-in antiseptic room.
âBut itâs so silly!â Cart burst out. âMonigan was just a stupid game! And I curse myself for inventing herâI curse my wretched imagination! I keep on telling myself that Monigan isnât real. Perhaps itâs all a matter of belief. Perhaps you should try very hard not to believe in Moniganâbecause I can see you do, just as much as Howard does.â She lifted the telegram up, to stand for Howard. âStupid boy!â she said. âStupid, humble boy! Fancy thinking we might have forgotten him!â
The water in the patientâs eyes welled and rolled away down the sides of her stitched and plastered face. âBut I have,â she confessed. âI mean, I havenât forgotten him, but I havenât the faintest memory of him going to Canada!â She could see Cart turning to stare at her. âItâs seven years sinceâsince I last knew,â she explained. âIâve been having the weirdest experience. Iâve been a ghost, and I went home, and you were all thereâI saw everyone. Howard was one of the first people I saw. But he was a schoolboy.â
âDonât you really remember?â Cart said wonderingly. âIt was just after the row over the hen, after weâd all been sent to Grannyâs. Will Howard suddenly turned up at Grannyâs and mooned about, almost crying, because his parents had decided to take him and live in Canada, and he didnât want to go. We said weâd hide him. But,â Cart concluded, remembering gloomily, âGranny phoned his parents, and they came and fetched him away.â
There was a pause. Then Cart turned to look at her sister again.
âGhost, did you say? There was a ghostâor we all thought there wasâjust before the hen trouble. I think youâd better tell me.â
She told it, hurrying, sobbing a little, and hurrying on. She was suddenly obsessed with the feeling that there was not much time. She told it all, more or less, right up to the exorcism and the farmhouse and Sallyâs midnight dedication to Monigan. But what she did not say, and this was the fact pressing behind all the rest which she could not bring herself to tell even Cart, was that she did not know which sister she was. Not Cart. Not Sally, she thought as she spoke. So Iâm either Imogen or Fenella. But I canât bear Cart to know I donât know.
Cart listened, bent forward, with two clear creases on her browâthe same clear creases her sister remembered as belonging to Imogen when Imogen was thinking.
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