I had fallen in love with you that night of the first seance when I stood before you and you looked at me with such boundless, adoring love.

I think it would have turned almost any girl's head to be looked at in that way.

And then, Paul, you are very handsome.
"I always had a taste for acting.

They used to say I would have done well on the stage, and the idea of playing a role so fine and so bold as this took my fancy from the start.

It was that, Paul, that, and the notion of your making love to me, more than any thought of the wealth and luxury I might get a share in, which made me consent to the plan.
"That sickness of Mrs.Legrand's between the seances--I am telling you all, Paul--was only a sham, so that we might see how much in earnest you were, and to get time for me to learn by heart all mother could teach me about the Hilton of forty years ago and Miss Ludington's girlhood.