1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:05,919 Speaker 1: A Haunted House by Virginia Wolf. Whatever hour you woke, 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:08,519 Speaker 1: there was a door shutting from room to room. There 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:12,359 Speaker 1: went hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure 4 00:00:12,839 --> 00:00:17,359 Speaker 1: a ghostly couple here we left it, she said, and 5 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 1: he added, Oh, but here too. It's upstairs, she murmured, 6 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: And in the garden he whispered quietly. They said, Or 7 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: we shall wake them. But it wasn't that you woke us. 8 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: Oh no, they're looking for it. They're drawing the curtain, 9 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 1: one might say, and so read on a page or two. 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:41,759 Speaker 1: Now they've found it, one would be certain, stopping the 11 00:00:41,799 --> 00:00:45,079 Speaker 1: pencil on the margin. And then, tired of reading, one 12 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: might rise and see for one's self the house all empty, 13 00:00:48,679 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: the doors standing open, only the wood pigeons bubbling with content, 14 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,399 Speaker 1: and the hum of the threshing machine sounding from the farm. 15 00:00:56,719 --> 00:00:58,679 Speaker 1: What did I come in here for? What did I 16 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:02,759 Speaker 1: want to find? My hands are empty. Perhaps it's upstairs. 17 00:01:02,759 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: Then the apples were in the loft, and so down again, 18 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: the garden still as ever, only the book had slipped 19 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: into the grass. But they had found it in the 20 00:01:13,359 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: drawing room, not that one could ever see them. The 21 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 1: window panes reflected apples reflected roses. All the leaves were 22 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: green in the glass. If they moved in the drawing room, 23 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: the apple only turned its yellow side. Yet, the moment after, 24 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,719 Speaker 1: if the door was opened, spread about the floor, hung 25 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:36,719 Speaker 1: upon the walls, pinned it from the ceiling. What my 26 00:01:36,799 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: hands were empty. The shadow of a thrush crossed the carpet. 27 00:01:41,519 --> 00:01:44,439 Speaker 1: From the deepest wells of silence. The wood pigeon drew 28 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:50,879 Speaker 1: its bubble of sound, safe, safe, Safe. The pulse of 29 00:01:50,879 --> 00:01:56,719 Speaker 1: the house beat softly. The treasure buried the room. The 30 00:01:56,719 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: pulse stopped short. Oh, was that the buried treasure. A 31 00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: moment later the light had faded out in the garden. Then, 32 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 1: but the trees spun darkness for a wandering beam of sun, 33 00:02:12,479 --> 00:02:16,319 Speaker 1: so fine, so rare, coolly sunk beneath the surface the 34 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,319 Speaker 1: beam I saw it always burnt behind the glass. Death 35 00:02:20,479 --> 00:02:24,039 Speaker 1: was the glass. Death was between us coming to the 36 00:02:24,039 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: woman first hundreds of years ago, leaving the house, sealing 37 00:02:28,039 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: all the windows, the rooms were darkened. He left it, 38 00:02:33,039 --> 00:02:37,199 Speaker 1: left her, went north, went east, saw the stars turned 39 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: in the southern sky. Sought the house, found it dropped 40 00:02:41,039 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: beneath the downs. Safe safe Safe. The pulse of the 41 00:02:46,719 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: house beat gladly the treasure yours. The wind roars up 42 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: the avenue. Trees stoop and bend this way and that. 43 00:02:57,479 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: Moonbeams splash and spill wild in the rain, but the 44 00:03:01,879 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: beam of the lamp falls straight from the window. The 45 00:03:05,039 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: candle burns, stiff and still, wandering through the house, opening 46 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: the windows, whispering not to wake us. The ghostly couple 47 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 1: seek their joy here we slept, she says, and he 48 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:25,199 Speaker 1: adds kisses without number, waking in the morning, silver between 49 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: the trees upstairs in the garden. When summer came in 50 00:03:31,319 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: winter snow time, the doors go shutting far in the distance, 51 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: gently knocking like the pulse of a heart. Nearer they 52 00:03:41,039 --> 00:03:45,919 Speaker 1: come cease at the doorway. The wind falls, the rain 53 00:03:46,039 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: slides silver down the glass. Our eyes darken. We hear 54 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:54,039 Speaker 1: no steps behind us, We see no ladies. Spread her 55 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:59,159 Speaker 1: ghostly cloak, His hands shield the lantern. Look. He breathes 56 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: sound to sleep, love upon their lips, stooping, holding their 57 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: silver lamp above us. Long they look in, deeply, long 58 00:04:09,879 --> 00:04:15,159 Speaker 1: they pause. The wind drives straightly, the flame stoops slightly. 59 00:04:16,199 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 1: Wild beams of moonlight cross both floor and wall, and 60 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 1: meeting stain the faces bent, the faces pondering, the faces 61 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:31,399 Speaker 1: that search the sleepers and seek their hidden joy. Safe, Safe, Safe. 62 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:35,879 Speaker 1: The heart of the house beats proudly. Long years, he 63 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:42,959 Speaker 1: says again, you found me here, she murmurs, sleeping in 64 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: the garden, reading, laughing, rolling apples in the loft. Here 65 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 1: we left our treasure, stooping. Their light lifts the lids 66 00:04:53,879 --> 00:04:59,399 Speaker 1: upon my eyes. Safe, Safe, Safe. The pulse of the 67 00:04:59,399 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 1: house beat. It's wildly waking. I cry, Oh, is this 68 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: your buried treasure? The light in the heart and of 69 00:05:11,319 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 1: a haunted house.