I supposed she had been amusing herself; that she should have tried to frighten me was inadmissible.

I don't pretend that I was completely at my ease, but I said, amiably: "You certainly have succeeded in making these beings hateful." "I have made nothing," she said with a faint smile, and went on amusing herself.

She would explain origins, now.
"Your"-- she used the word as signifying, I suppose, the inhabitants of the country, or the populations of the earth--"your ancestors were mine, but long ago you were crowded out of the Dimension as we are to-day, you overran the earth as we shall do to-morrow.

But you contracted diseases, as we shall contract them,--beliefs, traditions; fears; ideas of pity ...

of love.