But she conveyed the meaning as clearly as if she had uttered the plainest language." "What were her words ?" asked Miss Loring.
"I cannot repeat them.

She spoke with great caution, keeping remote, as to words, from the matter first in her thought, yet filling my mind with vague distrust, or firing it with jealousy at every sentence." "Can you fix a single clear remark--something that I can repeat ?" "Not one.

The whole interview impresses me like a dream.

Only the disturbance remains.

But let it pass as a dream, darling--a nightmare created by some spirit of evil.