Question

Why was Mrs otis hesitated

Answer 1

When the ghost laughed his most horrible laugh, in order to scare the Otis family, at that time Mrs.Otis offered him a bottle of Doctor Dobell's tincture. She suggested that if the laugh was a result of indigestion, then that was an excellent remedy. The ghost glared at her in fury, and began at once to make preparations for turning himself into a large black dog, an accomplishment for which he was justly renowned, and to which the family doctor always attributed the permanent idiocy of Lord Canterville's uncle, the Hon. Thomas Horton. The sound of approaching footsteps, however, made him hesitate in his fell purpose, so he contented himself with becoming faintly phosphorescent, and vanished with a deep churchyard groan.