I really did not expect any Grace to answer; for the laugh was as tragic, as preternatural a laugh as any I ever heard; and, but that it was high noon, and that no circumstance of ghostliness accompanied the curious cachinnation; but that neither scene nor season favoured fear, I should have been superstitiously afraid.
Confieso que yo no esperaba respuesta alguna de Grace, porque la risotada me parecía tener un acento trágico y sobrenatural como jamás oyera. Aunque estábamos en pleno día, circunstancia poco propicia a las manifestaciones fantasmagóricas, yo no podía evitar cierto temor.