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"Tellout in a delightfully contrived retreat cut out at the lower end of the double hedge Above thereenery, hazel and beech, as close as the roof and walls of a suloom up to the old brick steps beneath the yews: and before the two girls rested the pleasant apparatus of tea--silver, china and dahtful froie lookedthe nervous strain that had coether, it see rest--one at her own dear French convent until a week ago, being entirely forbidden by the nuns to speak of her experiences at all, so soon as they had heard the rough outline Mrs Baxter had spent the time in ratherback this evening
"It seeie pensively, beginning to measure in the tea with a small silver scoop "Oh! Mabel; may I tell you exactly what is in my mind: and then on't talk of it any irl, with a little comfortable movement
When the tea had been poured out and the plates set ready to hand, Maggie began
"It seems perfectly dreadful of me to have any doubts at all, after all this; butbut you don't kno queer it seee--" she waved a hand illustratively to the hazels beside her--"a kind of thick hedge between me and Easter--I suppose it's the illness: the nuns tell me so Well, it's like that I can see myself, and Laurie, and Mr Cathcart, and all the rest of the beyond; and they all see that I can't see Oh! it's hopeless
"Well, the first theory I have is that these little figures,that I can't now: that there really was so or somebody, which rammar; but you understand, don't you?) Well, I'll come back to that presently
"And ie sipped her teawas si upon a few little facts and coincidences, and perhaps a little fraud too Do you know the way, if you're jealous or irritable, the way in which everything seele word the person you're suspicious of utters all fits in and corroborates your idea It isn't ination: you have real facts, of a kind; but what's the matter is that you choose to take the facts in one way and not another You select and arrange until the thing is perfectly convincing And yet, you know, in nine cases out of ten it's simply a lie!