I knew before I left home that he half believed you to be right about the immortality of past selves.

For my part, I believe it wholly, and that I have abused not only Miss Ludington and you, but the spirit of her whom I have personated.
"If Miss Ludington had not so loaded me with kindness I could have borne it, better, but to have that sweet old lady fairly worshipping the ground one trod on, and covering one with gifts, and dresses, and jewels, would have been too much, I think, for the conscience of the worst person in the world.
"I should have fled from the house before I had been here a week but for you, Paul.

I could not bear to leave you.

If I had only gone then I should have saved myself much; for what would it have been to leave you then to what it is now! "It was very wrong in me to promise to marry you that night when you came to me; for I knew then as well as now that I never could.

But I loved you so, I had no strength.