I looked upon it quite simply in that way.

It was just my profession.

I accepted it without any question.

I was not troubled about it until I came to Aix." A startling exposure, however, at Cambridge discredited the craze for spiritualism, and Captain Harland's fortunes declined.

He crossed with his daughter to France and made a disastrous tour in that country, wasted the last of his resources in the Casino at Dieppe, and died in that town, leaving Celia just enough money to bury him and to pay her third-class fare to Paris.
There she lived honestly but miserably.