“The ghost! We’ve seen him!” one of them cried out “We’ve seen the ghost!”
Sorelli was very superstitious. She was easily frightened by stories of the ghost, but she tried to be brave.
“That’s ridiculous!” she told the girls. “You are just being foolish.”
“No, no! It’s true. We really all saw him,” the girls cried out. The chorus girls all claimed to have seen him. In fact, whenever anything unfortunate happened in the building, the girls always said, “It was the ghost!”