"No! you do what is worse--you believe in your own opinion; you persist in your own conclusion--with the newspaper before you! Do you, or do you not, believe the newspaper ?" "I believe in what I saw last night." "In what you saw last night! You, an educated woman, a clever woman, believing in a vision of your own fancy--a mere dream! I wonder you are not ashamed to acknowledge it!" "Call it a dream if you like, Lucy.

I have had other dreams at other times--and I have known them to be fulfilled." "Yes!" said Mrs.Crayford.

"For once in a way they may have been fulfilled, by chance--and you notice it, and remember it, and pin your faith on it.

Come, Clara, be honest!--What about the occasions when the chance has been against you, and your dreams have not been fulfilled?
You superstitious people are all alike.

You conveniently forget when your dreams and your presentiments prove false.