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 "It is wonderful," he said, when he got over the shock; "wonderful to be understood!" And you know, really—poor dear!—so many people don't understand Fothy at all. Nor what he writes, either.

But the strangest thing was—I wish I could make you understand how positively eerie it makes me feel—that just the instant before he said, "It is wonderful to be understood!" I knew he was going to say it. I got that psychically, too!

"Fothy," I said, "it is absolutely weird—I eaves-dropped on your brain the second time!"

"Wonderful!" he said, "but the still more wonderful thing would be——"

And before he could finish the sentence it happened the third time! I interrupted and finished it for him.

"The still more wonderful thing would be," I said, "if it were not so."

"Heavens!" he cried, "this is getting positively ghostly."

And you know, it almost was. Not that I'm superstitious at all, you know, in the vulgar way. But in the dim room—I always have just candlelight in the drawing-room—it fits in with my more reflective moods, somehow—I believe one must suit one's environment to one's mood, don't you?—in the dim room, all those thoughts flying back and forth [143]