Then she looked swiftly at Leighton.

Yes, there was a flush under his tan and a new light in his eyes.

When she had completed the introductions she looked away for a moment, and said in her soul: "Thank goodness! If that is not a case of love at first sight, I shan't believe that there is any such thing, whatever the poets and romancers may say." Yes, her womanly intuition was right as far as it reached; but she could not yet grasp the full meaning of the marvel which she had helped to bring about.

With her father, she believed in the Doctrine of Re-Incarnation as the only one which affords a logical and entirely just solution of the bewildering puzzles and ghastly problems of human life as seen by the eyes of ignorance.

She had grasped in its highest meaning the truth--that Man is really a living soul, living from eternity to eternity.