He told me the past as I know it myself.

Events that transpired in a far foreign land a score of years ago, known, as I thought, to no creature under heaven, he told me of as if they had transpired yesterday.

The very thoughts that I thought in that by-gone time he revealed as if my heart lay open before him.

How, then, could I doubt?
If he could lift the veil of the irrevocable past, why not be able to lift the veil of the mysterious future?
He took the hour of our child's birth and ascended to the battlements, and there, alone with the stars of heaven, he cast his horoscope.

Olivia, men in all ages have believed in this power of astrology, and I believe as firmly as I believe in Heaven." Lady Kingsland listened, and that quiet smile of half amusement, half contempt never left her lips.
"And the horoscope proved a horrorscope, no doubt," she said, the smile deepening.