The Confession

Excerpts:I am not a susceptible woman. I am objective rather than subjective and a fairly full experience of life has taught me that most of my impressions are from within out rather than the other way about. For instance obsession at one time a few years ago of a shadowy figure on my right just beyond the field of vision was later exposed as the result of a defect in my glasses. In the same way Maggie my old servant was during one entire summer haunted by church-bells and considered it a personal summons to eternity until it was shown to be in her inner ear.Yet the Benton house undeniably made me uncomfortable...