I just watched Orson Welles’ 1952 short ghost movie Return to Glennascaul (silly but gorgeous) and was struck by the phrase “keep in” used of a fire: the narrator meets a couple of women at a crossroads, drives them to their isolated house, and is invited in for “tea, or perhaps something stronger,” and the older of the women is pleased to find that “the fire has kep...
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