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The Uninvited · 1944 — 第 14 / 28 章 · 2'36" · B2

Lizzie Sees a Ghost at Windward, Explained：dream up

The household is settling for the night when the maid comes flying upstairs, terrified by something at the studio door. Roderick calms her by dismissing it — "Lizzie's dreamed up a ghost for herself" — but Stella has vanished, and when she is found she has fainted cold in a room that feels like an icebox.

あらすじ

Lizzie runs to Roderick in terror: she has seen something at the studio door, like "a mist... a crawling mist", and swears it was a woman. Roderick insists she imagined it because she had heard the house was haunted. Then Stella is missed, and she is found unconscious on the floor of the studio, in a room that is freezing cold. A doctor must be fetched.

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dream upin a dead faintI'd soonerturn down

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このシーンの表現

dream up

invent in one's mind

Rick teases that Lizzie has dreamed up a ghost for herself, half doubting and half soothing her.

He dreamed up an excuse on the spot.

このシーンの他の表現

  • in a dead faint

    unconscious

  • I'd sooner

    I would rather

  • turn down

    prepare a bed for the night

  • that's a girl

    good girl

  • cussedness

    stubborn perversity

このシーンのメモ一覧

43 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ

表現 · B1with one's own eyes

with my own eyes

There was! I saw it with me own two eyes!
発音own two eyes

Own two eyes links into one run, almost owntwoeyes.

There was! I saw it with me own two eyes!
発音crawling mist

Both crawling and mist are stressed low, which makes the line creepy.

It was like a mist... a crawling mist.
文法 · B1because you heard the house was haunted

reason clause: Because introduces the reason, with a further clause reporting what she had heard.

You imagined it just because you heard the house was haunted.
表現 · B2nothing of the sort

of that kind

I'd heard nothing of the sort, Mr. Roderick.
発音tellin' me

The g in tellin' is dropped, and me slides past.

Holy saints! Are you tellin' me it is?
表現 · B2for heaven's sake

for goodness' sake

For heaven's sake, Rick, what is it?
表現 · B2dream up something

invent in one's mind

Rick teases that Lizzie has dreamed up a ghost for herself, half doubting and half soothing her.

Oh, Lizzie's dreamed up a ghost for herself.
表現 · B1come along

come with me

Come along, Lizzie.
表現 · B1turn down the beds

prepare a bed for the night

Lizzie explains she only came up to turn down the beds before she saw the thing.

I'd just come upstairs to turn down the beds.
文法 · B2I'd just come upstairs

past perfect: I'd is I had; the past perfect places the bed-making just before she saw the thing.

I'd just come upstairs to turn down the beds.
表現 · A2look down at someone

gazing down at me

There it stood by the studio door, looking down at me.
スラング · B1'Twas

it was — Old or dialectal; rare in modern speech.

'Twas a woman. I swear it.
表現 · A2be all right

fine again

Come and sit down. You'll be all right in a minute.
表現 · A2in a minute

very soon

Come and sit down. You'll be all right in a minute.
表現 · B1just a drop

only a tiny amount

- Have some sherry, Lizzie. - Just a drop.
表現 · B1another night

one more night

I'll not sleep in this house another night, Mr. Roderick.
文法 · B2I'll not

negated will: Irish English often says I'll not where standard English uses I won't.

I'll not sleep in this house another night, Mr. Roderick.
文法 · B2I'd sooner die

would sooner: Would sooner takes a bare verb and ranks one option above an unstated other.

- Come now, Lizzie. - I will not! I'd sooner die.
発音I'd sooner

The d in I'd almost vanishes, so it sounds like I-sooner.

- Come now, Lizzie. - I will not! I'd sooner die.
表現 · B2be in a dead faint

unconscious

When they find Stella, the first report is that she is in a dead faint.

- Rick, what is it? - She's in a dead faint.
表現 · B1like an icebox

freezing cold

- This room, it's like an icebox. - Colder.
表現 · A2get a doctor

fetch a doctor

We'll have to get a doctor.
表現 · A2what kind of something

what sort of

Well, what kind of bogey did you see?
スラング · B2bogey

a ghost or bugbear — Casual and slightly jokey; not for formal speech.

Well, what kind of bogey did you see?
表現 · B2out of sheer + noun

purely from

Fainted out of sheer cussedness, huh?
スラング · C1cussedness

stubborn perversity — Fine among friends, but rude said to someone's face.

Fainted out of sheer cussedness, huh?

「Lizzie Sees a Ghost at Windward」を読み解く

What's really going on

The film's first ghost arrives through a servant's eyes, and the household's instinct is to explain her away. Roderick's line, "Lizzie's dreamed up a ghost for herself", is meant to reassure, but it also reveals who gets to decide what is real: the master, not the maid. Lizzie answers with the plainest possible evidence — "There was! I saw it with me own two eyes!" — and refuses to sleep in the house again. Her fear is treated as nerves and even as "sheer cussedness." Yet the scene ends by proving her right in the only way the others cannot dismiss: Stella is found in a dead faint in a room so cold it feels like an icebox. The house has answered, whether or not anyone believes the maid.

Theme

TrustThe maid's honest testimony is doubted by the people she serves, and the house itself becomes the only witness.
SecretsSomething is hiding in the house, seen only by the servant and then confirmed by Stella's collapse.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A crawling mist gives the fear a shape without a face.
  • Lizzie's dialect makes her refusal feel absolute.
  • The household panic shifts from a ghost to a missing girl.
  • The cold room is treated as evidence, not just atmosphere.
  • Rick's jokes are his way of staying calm.

発音のポイント

  • own two eyes — Own two eyes links into one run, almost owntwoeyes.
  • crawling mist — Both crawling and mist are stressed low, which makes the line creepy.
  • tellin' me — The g in tellin' is dropped, and me slides past.
  • I'd sooner — The d in I'd almost vanishes, so it sounds like I-sooner.
It was like a mist... a crawling mist.

Lizzie's description of the thing she saw: not a solid figure but a drifting shape, which makes it harder to dismiss as a person.

There it stood by the studio door, looking down at me.

She fixes the ghost at one exact spot and gives it a human posture, turning a vague fear into a precise memory.

I'll not sleep in this house another night, Mr. Roderick.

Lizzie's flat refusal to stay — not a fear she can be talked out of, but a decision about where she will sleep.

There was! I saw it with me own two eyes!

Her stubborn insistence on what she saw, in the plain words of someone who will not be persuaded she imagined it.

このシーンについての質問

What does Lizzie actually see?

She says she saw a woman at the studio door, and describes it as "a mist... a crawling mist". When she steps back, it looks like mist again; close up, it looks like a woman.

Why does Roderick dismiss the ghost?

He assumes Lizzie has heard the house is haunted and frightened herself. His answer, that she has "dreamed up a ghost for herself", is a way of calming her, but it also refuses to take her seriously.

Why does Stella faint?

She is found unconscious in the studio, in a room that is freezing. The film does not explain what she saw there, which links her faint to the ghost and to the room's unnatural cold.

Why does Lizzie refuse to sleep in the house?

She is genuinely terrified and says she will not spend another night there, insisting she'd sooner die. She is sent to the Jessup farm instead.

What is the room like when they find Stella?

It is unnaturally cold. One character calls it "like an icebox", and the reply is simply "Colder." The cold is treated as evidence that something is in the house.

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