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Rivardi was surprised at the passionate energy she threw into these words

"You feel that deeply?" he said--"And yet--pardon ious?"

"Marchese, I 'assu!" she answered--"I cannot 'pretend'! To 'assume' or to 'pretend' would hardly serve the Creator adequately Creative or Natural Force is so far away from sham that one must do more than 'assume'--one swood, as crossing the loggia, leaning on her stick, paused to look at the eloquent speaker She orth looking at just then, for she seemed inspired Her eyes were extraordinarily brilliant, and her whole personality expressed a singular vitality coupled with an ethereal grace that suggested so almost superhuman

"Yes--one must be!" she repeated--"I have not BEEN A STUDENT OF SCIENCE SO LONG WITHOUT LEARNING that there is no 'assuht, and THINK straight too! I could not 'assuion, because I FEEL it--in the very depths of my soul! As Don Aloysius said the other day, it is marvellous how close we are to the Source of all life, and yet we iine we are far away! If we could only realise the truth of the Divine Nearness, and work WITH it and IN it, we should ! We work too much WITH ourselves and OF ourselves" She paused,--then added slowly and seriously--"I have never done any work that way I have always considered "

"And so--being Nothing--you still ently at her fantastic speech

She answered hiravity

"It is as you say,--being Nothing ; the Force that is Everything made my air-ship possible!"