... getting nervous and he jokes about how he should warn any ghost about tripping over a candle on the floor. Then it happens. The first candle goes out, casting a black shadow on the wall. The second candle goes out and the tension in the story is boosted as there is uncertainty about why the candle went out. Although the man does not feel any draft, he claims that it was a draft that blew ... himself although he has a deeper feeling that he may not be alone. He has to dismiss this from his mind otherwise he would become the victim of his own fears. As he goes over to re-light the candle,...

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... faint noise in the direction of the table. Jarette, breathless, froze in the chair. After a few seconds Jarette rose from the chair finding the wall in the dark and following as a zombie then knocking over the reading stand till he had found the candle. He lit the candle to see what was the matter but everything seemed to be the same. With little candle left Jarette walked back to the chair, blew the candle out and sat ... it beside him. Sitting at the chair without ease telling himself he ... will not lose the bet because he has no belief in ... ...

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... him on her side' in preparation for what the audience sees in Act 2. Natasha is the first character seen in Act 2 and is seen prowling with a candle. She stops outside André's room and asks him what he is doing and to remind him not to have a candle burning in there. This shows a huge change from the subdued Natasha of Act one. She is now ... seemingly fully in control of André even from this short exchange. She needs to be performed with confidence showing and power. In the next dialogue Natasha speaks she says there's a candle burning. Who lit it? - I still haven't got ... to the b...

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... , framing an innocent man. Emily Brent is a religious woman who fired a servant for becoming pregnant outside of marriage. The servant subsequently committed suicide. John Macarther, a former general who sent a subordinate out to his death because he was Macarthers ... enters her room she hallucinates she is back at the place she let the little boy drown. The window is open and the smell of the sea causes her hallucination. The wind blows out the candle and she feels something cold across her neck. ... She screams and everyone but Wargrave runs upstairs. They find that is was simply a pi...

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