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 TWILIGHT SLEEP

AVE you read anything about the Twilight Sleep yet? It's wonderful; simply wonderful!

The loveliest man told our little group all about it—just the other evening.

"Hermione," said Mamma, "I will not have you taking up any more subjects of that East Indian character. No Swami shall ever enter this house again!"

"Mamma," I said to her, "you are hopelessly unadvanced. It has nothing whatever to do with Going into the Silences or Swamis. It's entirely scientific and not psychic at all. And if it were psychic, what then?"

"No Swami," said Mamma, even more stubbornly, "shall ever darken my door again!"

Poor, dear, stupid Mamma! She gets things so mixed!

"As far as Swamis are concerned," I told her, "the debt we owe to them is incalculable. Where, for instance, would we have ever heard of Karma if it had not been for the Swamis?" [173]