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Chapter V One day, Virginia was walking along the corridor, when she saw a person in one of the rooms and went in. To her surprise, it was the Canterville ghost himself and he looked really sad. “I am so sorry for you,” she said, “but my brothers are going back to Eton tomorrow, and then, if you behave yourself, no one will annoy you.” “It is absurd asking me to behave myself,” the ghost answered, “I must rattle my chains, and groan through keyholes, and walk about at night. It is my only reason for existing.” “It is no reason at all for existing, and you know you have been very nasty. Mrs Umney told us that you had killed your wife.” “Well, I quite admit it,” said the ghost, “but my wife was not very nice, you know, and she knew nothing about cookery. However, it is all over now, and I don't think it was very nice of her brothers to starve me to death.”                         Have you to death? Oh, Mr Ghost, I mean Sir Simon, are you hungry? I have a s

   Chapter I When the American, Mr Otis, bought Canterville Castle, everyone told him that this was very foolish, as the place was haunted. But Mr Otis answered, “I come from a modern country, where we have everything that money can buy. And if there were such a thing as a ghost in Europe, we would have it at home in one of our museums.” A few weeks later, on a lovely July evening, Mr Otis, his wife and their children, Washington, Virginia and the twins, went down to their new home. When they entered the avenue of Canterville Castle, the sky suddenly became dark and a spooky stillness was in the air. Mrs Umney, the housekeeper, led them into the library of the castle, where they sat down and began to look around. Suddenly, Mrs Otis saw a red stain on the floor just by the fireplace and said to Mrs Umney, “I am afraid something has been spilt there.” “Yes, madam,” said the old housekeeper in a low voice, “blood has been spilt on that spot.” “How terrible,” said Mrs Otis; “

In "The Canterville Ghost," the twins are the youngest children of Mr and Mrs Otis. Nicknamed 'The Stars and the Stripes,' they quickly become the nemesis of Sir Simon, the Canterville ghost, because they delight in playing tricks on him. This occurs first in Chapter Two when the twins throw pillows at the ghost as he runs down the corridor to escape Mr Otis. Later, in Chapter Three, for example, the twins humiliate the ghost by using their pea-shooters on him. In another scene, in Chapter Four, the twins outwit him by constructing a slide from the entrance of the Tapestry Chamber to the top of the staircase. Unaware of its presence, the ghost slips on the slide and injures himself in the process.  But the twins have a sentimental side, too. When Virginia goes missing in Chapter Six, for instance, the twins join the search to find her. At dinner, they are described as being "awestruck" and "subdued" by her absence because of their fondness

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