At any rate, she saw things more clearly than most.

I mean that the future was nearer to her mind; and in a sense, the past also." "Indeed.

You must have found her a congenial companion.

I suppose that you talked a good deal of these things ?" "Sometimes we did." "And discovered that your views were curiously alike?
For when one mystic meets another mystic, and the other mystic has beautiful eyes and sings divinely, the spiritual marriage will follow almost as a matter of course.

What else is to be expected?
But I am glad that you were faithful to your principles, both of you, and clung fast to the ethereal side of things." Morris writhed beneath this satire, but finding no convenient answer to it, made none.
"Do you remember, my dear ?" went on Mary, "the conversation we had one day in your workshop before we were engaged--that's years ago, isn't it--about star-gazing considered as a fine art ?" "I remember something," he said.
"That I told you, for instance, that it might be better if you paid a little more attention to matters physical, lest otherwise you should go on praying for vision till you could see, and for power until you could create ?" Morris nodded.
"Well, and I think I said--didn't I?
that if you insisted upon following these spiritual exercises, the result might be that they would return upon you in some concrete shape, and take possession of you, and lead you into company and surroundings which most of us think it wholesome to avoid." "Yes, you said something like that." "It wasn't a bad bit of prophecy, was it ?" went on Mary, rubbing her chin reflectively, "and you see his Satanic Majesty knew very well how to bring about its fulfilment.