I know that." "I do" "I was sure of it." "At the same time, remember the doctor's advice." "Oh, doctors are always against that sort of thing." "Julian, I have a strong feeling that, should we ever get any manifestation at all, it will be inimical, even deadly, to one or both of us.

Each time we have sat a sensation of distress has taken hold of me, and each time with greater force." "Nerves!" "Well, then, the hand which you say you held was nerves ?" "Perhaps.

But that is just it.

I must know, or at least try to know.

It is inevitable.