Mary Roberts Rinehart Fullscreen Screw staircase (1907)

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So we sit and talk, and sometimes Liddy threatens to leave, and often I discharge her, but we stay together somehow.

I am talking of renting a house next year, and Liddy says to be sure there is no ghost.

To be perfectly frank, I never really lived until that summer.

Time has passed since I began this story.

My neighbors are packing up for another summer.

Liddy is having the awnings put up, and the window boxes filled.

Liddy or no Liddy, I shall advertise to-morrow for a house in the country, and I don't care if it has a Circular Staircase.