rectangle of light framed by the bars of the window; and besides, the electric light will come on the moment she reaches the room.
So she walked quickly toward the room. And when she reached its door and saw the square of light on the floor, her heart settled and she felt safe; she walked toward the electric switch and stretched out her hand, feeling for it. At that very instant the square of light coming from the window vanished. How dreadful! What had happened? But she completed her movement mechanically, her heart beating fast: she turned the switch — no light came. She turned it again and again — no light! The electric current had failed in the house as in the street.
She looked around her in terror and saw dim shapes moving and trembling, and colored circles swimming in the darkness. She knows that all this is an illusion that always appears in the dark — but what is that she sees over there? A tall white specter! There flashes through her imagination, like lightning, what she once read about tormented spirits that appear to the living in the form of white phantoms.
Terror all but chokes her — but she will not scream, for Adel would hear her. What is to be done? And just then she
felt something leap close beside her; she nearly shrieked with horror and began to run blindly ahead like a madwoman; her foot caught on something and she fell to the floor — and at that moment the room suddenly blazed with light.
Ni'mat got up from the floor, her eyes brimming with tears, then looked around her. The light had come on by itself, because she had turned the switch while the current was cut off.
Ah! That tormented spirit was a white nightgown hanging on the
rack. And there was the cat that had leapt close beside her, now sauntering at its leisure along the table! Ni'mat sat down on the chair, truly worn out. What a coward she was! — but she had managed not to scream.
And from that night on, whenever Ni'mat was afraid of the dark, she remembered the white tormented spirit — and laughed at herself, long and loud.
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