said Norah, sweetly. “I must—I would rather you would. You will not object? At six to-morrow evening I will meet you at Antonio’s. I want to sit with you there once more. And then—I will go where you say.” She gave him a bewildering bright smile, and walked swiftly away.
Surely it needed all the strength of her charm to carry off this astounding behavior. It was no discredit to Lorison’s strength of mind that his head began to whirl. Pocketing his hands, he rambled vacuously over to the druggist’s windows, and began assiduously to spell over the names of the patent medicines therein displayed.
A fantastic theorist urges that man may have two souls, a central one, which he inherited from the protoplasm, and which contains the essence of his nature; also an outward, or peripheral one which operates less mysteriously, being affected by externals.
