What I say is that I detest all this spiritual hocus-pocus to which you have always had a leaning.

I fear and hate it instinctively, as some people hate cats, because I know that it breeds mischief, and that, as I said before, people who go on trying to see, do see, or fancy that they do.

While we are in the world let the world and its limitations be enough for us.

When we go out of the world, then the supernatural may become the natural, and cease to be hurtful and alarming." "Yes," said Morris, "those are very good rules.

Well, Mary, I have told you the history of this sad adventure of which the book is now closed by death, and I can only say that I am humiliated.