star to star. At least I know I often feel as if I had done so."

"You mean from planet to planet, Godfrey; stars are hot places, you
know. You should not swallow all that theosophical bosh which is based
on nothing."

"There's the Bible," went on Godfrey, "which tells us the same thing,
that we live eternally----"

"Then we must always have lived, since eternity is a circle."

"Why not, Isobel? That is what I was trying to say. Well, if we live
eternally, we must live somewhere, perhaps in those planets, or
others, which it would be a waste to keep empty."

"I daresay--though Nature does not mind waste, or what seems to be
waste. But why should you think of living eternally at all? Many
people live a great deal too long as it is, and it is horrible to
believe that they go on for ever."

"You see they might grow to something splendid in the end, Isobel. You
must not judge them by what they are now."

"Oh! I know, the caterpillar and the butterfly, and all the rest of
it."

"The Bible"--continued Godfrey imperturbably--when she cut him short.

"Well, what of the Bible? How do you know that it is true?"