She lived at white heat, but to all the world she had lost nothing of her calm.
Celia did not foresee the hatred she was arousing; nor, on the other hand, did she foresee the overwhelming effect of these spiritualistic seances on Mme.Dauvray.Celia had never been brought quite close to the credulous before.
"There had always been the row of footlights," she said.

"I was on the platform; the audience was in the hall; or, if it was at a house, my father made the arrangements.

I only came in at the last moment, played my part, and went away.

It was never brought home to me that some amongst these people really and truly believed.

I did not think about it.