An unpublished footnote in the history of Henry Jekyll.
He passed his hand across his face, then started at his own shadow, which the lamp had sent shooting up the wall so the movement of his hand had made a giant dark motion behind him. He laughed softly. “When you were a child, Mary,” he said, “did you play shadow games?”
“No, sir,” I said.
Master looked up at me, a smile still playing around his mouth. “Just as well,” he said. “As it turns out, they can be very dangerous.”
- Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin
Really, this was just an excuse to get these two in the same room despite all logic. Content notes in endnote.