He is just an accident of Nature, that's all." "And why shouldn't there be an accident of Nature on Mars and elsewhere ?" queried Godfrey.
"Perhaps, but if so, it is quite another accident and has nothing to do with us." "I don't know," he answered.

"Sometimes," here his voice became dreamy as it had a way of doing, "I think that we pass on, all of us, from star to star.

At least I know I often feel as if I had done so." "You mean from planet to planet, Godfrey; stars are hot places, you know.

You should not swallow all that theosophical bosh which is based on nothing." "There's the Bible," went on Godfrey, "which tells us the same thing, that we live eternally----" "Then we must always have lived, since eternity is a circle." "Why not, Isobel?
That is what I was trying to say.

Well, if we live eternally, we must live somewhere, perhaps in those planets, or others, which it would be a waste to keep empty." "I daresay--though Nature does not mind waste, or what seems to be waste.