It was as if the girl had stepped down from the picture to be married.
Ida had demurred a little to standing just there, which had been the suggestion of Miss Ludington.

She was not without a vague superstition that the spirit of the girl whose lover she had stolen away would not wish her well.

But when she hinted this, Miss Ludington replied, "You must not think of it that way.

What has a spirit like her to do with earthly passions?
Your love has saved Paul from a dream as vain as it was beautiful, and which, had it gone on, might have gained a morbid strength and blighted his life.

I like to fancy, and I know it is Paul's belief, that the spirit of my Ida influenced you to come to us just as you came, that under her form Paul might fall in love with you.