What might she not reveal did she know where the woman came from?
It may have been that her power of Second Sight had to rest on some basis of knowledge or belief, and that her vision was but some intuitive perception of my own subjective thought.

But whatever it was it should be stopped--at all hazards.
This whole episode set me thinking introspectively, and led me gradually but imperatively to self-analysis--not of powers, but of motives.

I found myself before long examining myself as to what were my real intentions.

I thought at first that this intellectual process was an exercise of pure reason; but soon discarded this as inadequate--even impossible.

Reason is a cold manifestation; this feeling which swayed and dominated me is none other than passion, which is quick, hot, and insistent.
As for myself, the self-analysis could lead to but one result--the expression to myself of the reality and definiteness of an already-formed though unconscious intention.