Every fibre of my being resented such a conclusion.

How could I believe that there was no Margaret at all; but just an animated image, used by the Double of a woman of forty centuries ago to its own ends...! Somehow, the outlook was brighter to me now, despite the new doubts.
At least I had Margaret! Back swung the logical pendulum again.

The child then was not dead.
If so, had the Sorceress had anything to do with her birth at all?
It was evident--so I took it again from Corbeck--that there was a strange likeness between Margaret and the pictures of Queen Tera.

How could this be?
It could not be any birth-mark reproducing what had been in the mother's mind; for Mrs.Trelawny had never seen the pictures.

Nay, even her father had not seen them till he had found his way into the tomb only a few days before her birth.