And when a man, though he is young, feels as I do--as I have felt ever since yesterday, when I first saw Mimi's eyes--his heart jumps.

He does not need to learn things.

He knows." There was silence in the room, during which the twilight stole on imperceptibly.

It was Adam who again broke the silence.
"Do you know, uncle, if we have any second sight in our family ?" "No, not that I ever heard about.

Why ?" "Because," he answered slowly, "I have a conviction which seems to answer all the conditions of second sight." "And then ?" asked the old man, much perturbed.
"And then the usual inevitable.