Danforth was frankly jumpy, and began making some offensively irrelevant speculations about the horror at the camp-which I resented all the more because I could not help sharing certain conclusions forced upon us by many features of this morbid survival from nightmare antiquity. The speculations worked on his imagination, too;
Danforth zinez urduri zegoen, eta kanpalekuko izugarrikeriari buruzko espekulazio iraingarriki desegokiak egiten hasi zen; areago eragin zidaten, ezin bainuen saihestu amesgaiztoko antzinatasunetik zutik zirauen hiri morbosoaren ezaugarri ugarik sorturiko zenbait ondorio konpartitzea. Espekulazioek beraren irudimenari ere eragin zioten: