Cuss came out of the stranger’s room utterly shocked after the weird encounter. He dashed straight to Vicar Bunting in order to normalize himself. He was so dazed after meeting the stranger that he initially spoke incoherently and asked for something to drink to cool his agitated mind. Bunting gave him a glass of cheap sherry. Cuss, then related a detailed account of the weird encounter that he had earlier with the stranger. Bunting listened to the incredible story with rapt attention. However, he couldn’t help laughing when Cuss described his feeling on getting his nose tweaked by the invisible finger and thumb of the stranger. Bunting’s laugh hurt Cuss and he commented that the incident was startling and it didn’t deserve to be laughed over. The vicar saw a genuine panic in Cuss’s eyes. Though he still looked at Cuss with suspicion, doubting the veracity of his veracity of his account, he tried to pacify him by observing that the story was indeed remarkable. He assured Cuss with all his seriousness, wisdom and judiciousness, that his experience was definitely an extra-ordinary one. At that moment, Bunting could not offer help of any kind other than this assertion.