I had not been a strong child.

They kept the secret from my relatives because they knew they would dislike to hear it and would not believe, and also would dislike me as a queer, abnormal creature.

Angus had fears of what they might do with doctors and severe efforts to obliterate from my mind my "nonsense," as they would have been sure to call it.

The two wise souls had shielded me on every side.
"It was better that you should go on thinking it only a simple, natural thing," Angus said.

"And as to natural, what IS natural and what is not?
Man has not learned all the laws of nature yet.