- Victoria Winters: My name is Victoria Winters. I know I shouldn't be afraid. And yet the great house on Widows' Hill carries the dusty smell of fear. It moves through the paneled rooms and dark corridors. It seeps down from the walls and touches the heart of everyone who enters.
- Elizabeth Collins Stoddard: David, David, things don't happen that way.
- David Collins: They do here. Lots of things happen here.