Other Voices, Other Rooms

Why does Randolph insist that the lady in the window is a ghost?

Chapter 4:

Randolph cleared his throat, and grinned, dimples denting his cheeks. His face was like a round ripe peach. He was considerably younger than his cousin: somewhere, say, in his middle thirties. "Still, we haven't exorcized Master Knox's ghost." "It wasn't any ghost," muttered Joel. "There isn't any such of a thing: this was a real live lady, and I saw her."

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At dinner that night Joel meets Randolph for the first time and Joel's attempts to identify the strange woman are met by evasive answers by both Randolph and Miss Amy. Randolph, drinking sherry and smoking cigarettes, tries to tell Joel that he has hallucinated or been filled with too many of Zoo's stories. Randolph diverts the conversation by telling Joel about the Zoo's ill-fated marriage to Keg and Zoo's resulting wounds from Keg's attack on her.