9/22 It is not that your heart, your affections are concerned; that is to say, it is not that you want the materializee Itself. You concede that ?" "Yes, I concede that, too--cordially." "Very well, again; we are making progress. To sum up: The feeling, it is conceded, is not engendered by the mere conduct of the materializee; it is conceded that it does not arise from any pang which the personality of the materializee could assuage. Now then," said the earl, with the light of triumph in his eye, "the inexorable logic of the situation narrows us down to this: our feeling has its source in the money-loss involved. When you've found out the source of a disease, you've also found out what remedy is required--just as in this case. |