Howards End

by E.M. Forster

"Did you take her for a spook?" asked Dolly, for whom "spooks" and "going to church" summarized the unseen.

Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the generations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly, but to an after-life in the city of ghosts, while from others--and thus was the death of Wickham Place--the spirit slips before the body perishes.