Despite its grandeur, the building had a ghostly quality, with its dark, musty rooms, creaking doors, and gossamer curtains that fluttered aimlessly.
Along the way, they learn a little about themselves, and about the vagaries of adolescent friendships that seem rock-solid and undying until they blow away like gossamer.
She envies a little cousin, now in high school. Especially on spring evenings, she thinks about the gossamer dress she might have worn to her phantom PROM.
They quickly stripped me of my clothes and bound me like a mummy in a gossamer web.