`` Well , first tell me what you think of this . Suppose two people , both sensitively organized individuals , loved each other with a love stronger than life . If they were apart , do you think it might be possible for their souls to communicate with each other in some inexplicable way ? And if anything happened to one , do n't you think that that one could and would let the spirit of the other know ? '' `` You 're getting into too deep waters for me , Mary , '' I said , shaking my head . `` I 'm not an authority on telepathy , or whatever you call it . But I 've no belief in such theories . In fact , I think they are all nonsense . I 'm sure you must think so too in your rational moments . '' `` I dare say it is all nonsense , '' said Mrs. Sefton slowly , `` but if you had lived a whole year in the same house with Miriam Gordon , you would have been tainted too . Not that she had ` theories ' -- at least , she never aired them if she had . But there was simply something about the girl herself that gave a person strange impressions . When I first met her I had the most uncanny feeling that she was all spirit -- soul -- what you will ! no flesh , anyhow . That feeling wore off after a while , but she never seemed like other people to me . `` She was Mr. Sefton 's niece . Her father had died when she was a child . When Miriam was twenty her mother had married a second time and went to Europe with her husband . Miriam came to live with us while they were away . Upon their return she was herself to be married .
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