The Magians have the key which unlocks the door of the world of spirits to the human senses.

Your noble brother, in whom the claims of the spirit have long since triumphed over those of sense, has found this key without seeking it, since he has been permitted to see Korinna's soul.

And if he follows a competent guide he will see her again." "But why?
What good will it do him ?" asked Melissa, with a reproachful and anxious look at the man whose influence, as she divined would be pernicious to her brother, in spite of his knowledge.

The Magian gave a compassionate shrug, and in the look he cast at the philosopher, the question was legible, "What have such as these to do with the highest things ?" Philip nodded in impatient assent, and, without paying any further heed to his brother and sister, besought his friend to give him the proofs of the theory that the physical causation of things is weaker than the sympathy which connects them.

Melissa knew full well that any attempt now to separate Philip from Serapion would be futile; however, she would not leave the last chance untried, and asked him gravely whether he had forgotten his mother's tomb.
He hastily assured her that he fully intended to visit it presently.
Fruit and fragrant oil could be had here at any hour of the night.
"And your two wreaths ?" she said, in mild reproach, for she had observed them both below the portrait of Korinna.
"I had another use for them," he said, evasively; and then he added, apologetically: "You have brought flowers enough, I know.