The Shadow by E. Nesbit (with footnote annotations)
This is not an artistically rounded-off ghost story[1], and nothing is explained in it[2], and there seems to be no reason why any of it should have happened. But that is no reason why it should not be told. You must have noticed that all the real ghost stories you have ever come close to, are like this in these respects --no explanation, no logical coherence[3]. Here is the story. There were three of us and another[4], but she had fainted suddenly at the second extra[5] of t