* It wasn’t a trick of light or a shared hallucination that night in the tower, Readers. It was Hanna Eckhart seated next to Harold in the panoramic séance photo. Hanna might have long been a member of Harold’s house staff, but she was also a person with a keen interest in the afterlife, and Harold was only too delighted to push that interest in the directions he most favored. However, the plain fact that Hanna Eckhart sometimes participated in Harold’s psychic pursuits does not necessarily mean that any of the other terrible things our Alex (and after, at least for a while, our Libbie) believed about her were true. Remember this for what comes next.