For my own part I simply felt as if she belonged to another world , and that part of the time she -- her soul , you know -- was back there again . `` You must not suppose that Miriam was a disagreeable person to have in the house . On the contrary , it was the very reverse . Everybody liked her . She was one of the sweetest , most winsome girls I ever knew , and I soon grew to love her dearly . As for what Dick called her ` little queernesses ' -- well , we got used to them in time . `` Miriam was engaged , as I have told you , to a young Harvard man named Sidney Claxton . I knew she loved him very deeply . When she showed me his photograph , I liked his appearance and said so . Then I made some teasing remark about her love-letters -- just for a joke , you know . Miriam looked at me with an odd little smile and said quickly : '' ` Sidney and I never write to each other . ' '' ` Why , Miriam ! ' I exclaimed in astonishment . ` Do you mean to tell me you never hear from him at all ? ' '' ` No , I did not say that . I hear from him every day -- every hour . We do not need to write letters . There are better means of communication between two souls that are in perfect accord with each other . ' '' ` Miriam , you uncanny creature , what do you mean ? ' I asked .
`` But Miriam only gave another queer smile and made no answer XXXXX all .
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