H.G Wells' story, The Red Room

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…that the room is haunted. It is obviously difficult for the man to accept that he was wrong, but he does admit that the room is in fact haunted. Suddenly he no longer looks upon the custodians as old people who have heads full of superstition and stories, but as people who perhaps understand much more about it than he initially thought, and as people who are much wiser and more knowledgeable than he is.