well as physical, assisted us all along in this reform. Now, looking back
on our course, and comparing our present with our former state, we are
perfectly sure what is best for us, and he would be a rash man who should
intimate that we are not doing right in using the night for rest.

"But this is getting to be quite a long talk for so early in the morning.
Let us see if breakfast is not ready."

This meal proved to be as appetizing as the first, although the dishes
were entirely different; being made up, apparently, of fruit and cereals.

The doctor and I had been exceedingly interested in the way the dinner of
the evening before had been served. We did not understand it, and now we
were equally puzzled to see the breakfast courses come and go. No one came
in to make any change in the table, and our hostess seemed to have as
little to do with it as the rest of us. She presided with great dignity,
and, as I watched the changes going on with such perfect ease and quiet, I
could not refrain from saying:

"If it is proper for me to ask, will you tell us how this is done,
Mrs. ----"

"We do not use those titles now," she interrupted. "Call me Zenith, the
name by which I was introduced to you. I suppose Thorwald has told you
that electricity does nearly all our work. I arrange things in order
before the meal begins, and then by merely touching a button under the
table the apparatus is set in motion which brings and takes away
everything in the manner you see."

"It is wonderful," I exclaimed. "And if we are to believe all that