Question

why did helen, the ghost say that "Those were terrible days"?give a reference from THE SHADY PLOT.

Answer 1

Helen says that those were terrible days because when she was alive then she used to write and being a writer she did not get idea and struggled a lot and confused purgatory for Paradise

Answer 2

She said this because she was an unsuccessful writer when she was alive. And she knows the paib of being an unsuccessful writer.