"Earth and heaven are full of occult forces." I paid no further attention to the subject at the time, but this conversation came back to me with terrible force in the after-days.
For a while we chatted on ordinary subjects, and then, remounting our horses, we prepared to ride back.

During this time I had felt entirely free from any of the strange influences I have described, and I began to wonder at it; especially so as Miss Forrest had voluntarily come to my side, and we had galloped away together.
We took a roundabout road to Temple Hall, and so were longer together, and again I was happy.
"I thought you were not coming," she said.

"What in the world drew you away so suddenly ?" I tried to tell her, but I could not.

Every time I began to speak of the influence Voltaire had exerted I was seemingly tongue-tied.

No words would come.
"I was very sorry," I said at length, "but you did not want a companion.
Mr.Voltaire came." "Yes, he overtook us.