"Mother! Father!" yelled Anna running down the stairs.
"What's wrong?" asked Mr. Nelson coming up to her. He saw Anna was crying as she buried her head against his side.
"Father! It's horrible! I've gone mad!"
"What? Why on Earth would you think that?"
"I'm hearing another voice in my head," said Anna, looking up at her father with tears streaming down her face. "It says it's Circe, that she was living in the ring you
gave me!"
"Nonsense! Here, give me the ring."
"I can't! It won't come off my finger!"
"I'll get it off." And Mr. Nelson began to pull as his wife came in to see what the commotion was about.
"Father!" said Anna. "You're hurting me! Stop!"