She would be held up; she would be strengthened; he needn't in the least be anxious for her.

What would once more have been distinct to him had he tried to make it so was that, as Mrs.Newsome was essentially all moral pressure, the presence of this element was almost identical with her own presence.

It wasn't perhaps that he felt he was dealing with her straight, but it was certainly as if she had been dealing straight with HIM.

She was reaching him somehow by the lengthened arm of the spirit, and he was having to that extent to take her into account; but he wasn't reaching her in turn, not making her take HIM; he was only reaching Sarah, who appeared to take so little of him.

"Something has clearly passed between you and Chad," he presently said, "that I think I ought to know something more about.