Ghosts

“A spacious room opening onto a garden; on the left wall there is one door, on the right — two. In the middle of the room there is a round table furnished with chairs; on the table—books, magazines, and newspapers. In the foreground there is a window, and by it— a small sofa and a ladies’ worktable. At the back the room turns into a glass conservatory, slightly narrower than the room itself. In the right wall of the conservatory there is a door to the garden. Through the glass walls, a gloomy coastal landscape is visible, veiled in a net of fine drizzle…””