He could feel it still, he declared, and yet she had then ceased to walk among the living.
"Then it was my turn to doubt his word; but he maintained that his story was true in every detail; he would hear nothing said about some one resembling her, or anything of the kind, and spoke of daimons showing him false visions, to cheat him and hinder him from working out his investigations of the real nature of things to a successful issue.

But this is in direct antagonism to his views of daimons; and when at last he rushed out of the house, he looked like one possessed of evil spirits.
"I hurried after him, but he disappeared down a dark alley.

Then I had enough to do to finish my copy, and yesterday I carried it home to Seleukus.
"Then I had time to look for Philip, but I could hear nothing of him, either in his own lodgings or at the Museum.

To-day I have been hunting for him since early in the morning.

I even forgot to lay any flowers on my mother's grave, as usual on the day of the Nekysia, because I was thinking only of him.