"But how absurd to say they could ever do me harm." "Look here," said Anna Wolsky earnestly, "you are quite right, Madame; my friend has a necklace which has already played a certain part in her life.

But is it not just because of this fact that you feel the influence of this necklace so strongly?
I entreat you to speak frankly.

You are really distressing me very much!" Madame Cagliostra looked very seriously at the speaker.
"Well, perhaps it is so," she said at last.

"Of course, we are sometimes wrong in our premonitions.

And I confess that I feel puzzled--exceedingly puzzled--to-day.