Compare and contrast Virginia’s character with the twins. Her nature is totally opposed to that of her family members. Elaborate. Chapter 6

Virginia E. Otis was a sensitive as well as a sensible girl. While the others were too busy rationalising everything that happened around them, they never really thought about the ghost and his past. Virginia was patient and willing to listen, she had a heart that could help anyone, human or ghost as well as an indomitable spirit which gave her the purity of her soul. She was a little girl of fifteen, with large blue eyes that had a fine freedom in them and she was also lithe and lovely as a fawn. She was very good at sports, having raced old Lor Bilton on her pony twice round the park and winning by a length and a half. She liked being on her own, painting, wandering around the Chase and going to the garden for flowers. She was quite unlike the rest of her family. The twins on the other hand, The Star and Stripes, were two delightful boys who laughed and shouted a lot apart from playing pranks on people. Being small children, they also had a mean streak in them which is brought out when they charge at the ghost with a pea-shooter. They did not possess the sensitivity that was a characteristic trait of their sister, Virginia.