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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: Otis, that you took the furniture and the ghost at a valuation, and
anything that belonged to the ghost passed at once into your
possession, as, whatever activity Sir Simon may have shown in the
corridor at night, in point of law he was really dead, and you
acquired his property by purchase.'
Mr. Otis was a good deal distressed at Lord Canterville's refusal,
and begged him to reconsider his decision, but the good-natured
peer was quite firm, and finally induced the Minister to allow his
daughter to retain the present the ghost had given her, and when,
in the spring of 1890, the young Duchess of Cheshire was presented
at the Queen's first drawing-room on the occasion of her marriage,
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