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"What? Are things thrown about?"

"Please don't laugh at it, Mr Baxter I aain she paused

"It's very awful," she said; "but, you know, people's nerves do break down entirely soh they're not in the least afraid I saw a case once--"

She stopped

"Yes?"

"It--it was a very awful case A girl--a sensitive--broke down altogether under the strain She's in an asylum"

"I don't think that's likely for me," said Laurie, with a touch of humor in his voice "And, after all, you run these risks, don't you--and Mrs Stapleton?"

"Yes; but you see we're not sensitives And even I--"

"Yes?"

"Well, even I feel sometimes rather overcome Mr Baxter, do you quite realize what it all means?"

"I think so To tell the truth--"

He stopped

"Yes; but the thing itself is really overwhel There's--there's an extraordinary power sometimes You knoith Maud Stapleton when she saw her father--"