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Laurie had shaken his head Now they were at it once one to bed half an hour before

"It's too wickedly grotesque," she said indignantly "You can't seriously believe that poor Amy's soul entered into your -rooatory, then, or heaven? It's so utterly and ridiculously impossible that I can't speak of it with patience"

Laurie smiled at her rather wearily and contemptuously

"The point," he said, "is this: Which is the simplest hypothesis? You and I both believe that the soul is somewhere; and it's natural, isn't it, that she should want--oh! dash it all! Maggie, I think you should remember that she was in love with ie made a tiny mental note

"I don't deny for an instant that it's a very odd story," she said "But this kind of explanation is just--oh, I can't speak of it You allowed yourself that up to this last thing you didn't really believe it; and now because of this coincidence the whole thing's turned upside down Laurie, I wish you'd be reasonable"

Laurie glanced at her

She was sitting with her back to the curtained and shuttered , beyond which lay the yealk; and the laht from the tall stand fell full upon her She was dressed in some rich darkish material, her breast veiled in fil ar the arht But her face was troubled, and her great serene eyes were not so serene as usual He was astonished at the persistence hich she attacked hiestures and quick words

"Maggie," he said, "please listen I've told you again and again that I'm not actually convinced What you say is just conceivably possible But it doesn't seem to me to be the most natural explanation The most natural seeht in saying that it's this last thing that has rain that turns the whole bottle into solid salt It needed that But, as I've said, I can't be actually and finally convinced until I've seento see "

"You did?" cried the girl

"Don't be silly, please Yes, I did I told him I'd be at his service when I came back to London Not to have done that would have been cowardly and absurd I owe him that"