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Maggie paused again, looking rather serious Her voice had risen a little, and a new color had come to her face as she talked She stooped to pick up the saucer
"Dearest, had you better--"
"Oh! yes: I've just about done," said Maggie briskly "There's hardly any et possession of hus and move them, so they start like that
"Well; that's what Mr Cathcart says happened to Laurie One of those Beasts cas about her--her appearance, her trick of starave and so on: and then, finally, made his appearance in her shape"
"I don't understand about that," irl
"Oh! my dear, I can't bother about that now There's a lot about astral substance, and so on Besides, this is only what Mr Cathcart says As I told you, I'm not at all sure that I believe one word of it But that's his idea"
Maggie stopped again suddenly, and leaned back, staring out at the lureen roof of hazels above her The small cat could be discerned half-way up the leafy tunnel swaying its body in preparation for a pounce, while overhead sounded an agitated twittering Mabel seized a pebble, and threith such success that the swaying stopped, and a reproachful cat-face looked round at her
"There!" said Mabel comfortably; and then, "Well, what do you really think?"
Maggie smiled reflectively
"That's exactly what I don't know myself in the very least As I said, all this seems to me more like a drea," she added vindictively, "that I've ever co as I live"
"But--"
"Oh, my dear, why can't we be all just sensible and norarden, and the chickens, and the cat and dog and coine what anybody wants with anything else Yes; I suppose I do, in a sort of way, believe Mr Cathcart It seeranted the spiritual world at all--which, naturally, I do grant--far the ent explanation It seems to me, intellectually, far the most broad-minded explanation; because it really does take in all the facts--if they are facts--and accounts for them reasonably Whereas the subjective--self business--oh, it's frightfully clever and ingenious--but it does assureat deal It seems to me rather like the people who say that electricity accounts for everything--electricity! And as for the iination theory--well, that's what appeals to me now, emotionally--because I happen to be in the chickens and butcher mood; but it doesn't in the least convince ht to believe, and, in a way, the one I do believe; but that doesn't in the least preventit extraordinarily unreal and impossible Anyhow, it doesn't matter much"