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16 them always rising over me. They watch me!

Phillip Forgive me. It was the marvellous beauty took me. I——

Mrs. Lattin

But it’s an unearthly beauty. And some- thing in it—lost. It’s lost to you. And I— oh, but I do love you so; for ever and ever you are mine—aren’t you?

[He stoops and hisses her. She half rises, whispering:

Phillip, dearest— something strange comes over me. I see a lifting of this heavy English sky. I have been through this be- fore—I have done this very thing before— long, long ago—injured you somehow! Oh, Phillip, can it be that we have lived before— _.pre-existence—is it true? (Sinks back.) I think. , . I think I must be near to... death!