Question

when and where did Virginia meet the ghost for the first time

Answer 1

One day Virginia and her curly-haired lover went out riding on the meadows. There, in getting through a hedge, she tore her dress very badly. Back home, she went up by the back staircase so as not to be seen. As she was running past a room, she saw someone inside the room. She thought it was her mother’s maid, who sometimes brought her work there. Virginia looked in to ask the maid to mend her dress. But she was surprised to see that it was not the maid but the Canterville ghost himself. He was sitting by the window and looking outside. His head was leaning on his hand. He seemed to be extremely depressed. Virginia’s first idea was to run away and lock herself in her room. But the sad expression on the ghost’s face filled her with pity. She decided to go in and comfort the ghost. So light was her football, and so deep was his melancholy, that he was not aware of her presence till she spoke to him. “I am so sorry for you,” said Virginia. This was the place where Virginia met the ghost for the first time.