The sequel seemed to astonish him, and he fell into a musing silence.
"You tell your story remarkably well," he said at last, "and I don't mind confessing that the abnormal character of the whole thing strikes me as beyond question.

Any attempt to explain such sequences by the worn-out old theory of imagination or coincidence would be manifestly futile.

Such coincidences, like miracles, do not happen.

Many things have happened that people call miracles, by which they mean a sort of divine conjuring-trick that is performed or brought about by violating or annihilating natural laws.

That, of course, is absurd.