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"It was, she reflected, a threshold; and it made her ponder, not for the first time here in the islands, on the frailty of civilization and our craven. dependence on its trappings."

No doubt the trappings are Margaret's wine, whiskey, and smokes. But if I were living on a haunted island, I would probably want the first two, anyway.