When a person has once seen a spirit -- or thinks he has -- he thenceforth believes it . And when somebody else is intimately associated with that person and knows all the circumstances -- well , he admits the possibility , at least . That is my position . But by the time it gets to the third person -- the outsider -- it loses power . Besides , in this particular instance the story is n't very exciting . But then -- it 's true . '' `` You have excited my curiosity . You must tell me the story . '' `` 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 XXXXX she was all spirit -- soul -- what you will !
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