In fact, it was very much as if another planet had been added to her world,--a planet which threw brilliant light into every dark corner of this one.

She questioned him eagerly.

Her old doubts and perplexities, which Mr.Allen's narrower mind had been unable to comprehend or to help, were now set at rest and cleared up by a spiritual vision far keener than her own.

Her mind was fed and trained by an intellect so much stronger than her own that it compelled her assent and her allegiance.

She came to him almost as a maiden, in the ancient days of Greece, would have gone to the oracle of the holiest shrine.