The Red Room

"that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me."

Subtopic

this quote shows that he or she is a courageous perosn and that they are not scared of imaginery spirtual ghost

"Why don't you have a drink?"

He was very courteous and really wanted to make people feel comfortable.

Ay," she broke in; "and eight-and-twenty years you have lived and never seen the likes of this house, I reckon

The old lady was really trying to scare H.G. Wells into believing in ghost and spirts as she did.

"Are you going alone"

He was concerned about the house he believed in the spirtits also and he was worried about the narrator's well being