It seems to me that whatever comes of this business, you and I are not likely to be among those who go down when the place is taken." "How is that, Doctor?
Why is our chance better than the rest?
I have no hope myself that any will be spared." "I put my faith in the juggler, Bathurst.

Has it not struck you that the first picture you saw has come true ?" "I have never given it a thought for weeks," Bathurst said; "certainly I have not thought of it today.

Yes, now you speak of it, it has come true.

How strange! I put it aside as a clever trick--one that I could not understand any more than I did the others, but, knowing myself, it seemed beyond the bounds of possibility that it could come true.
Anything but that I would have believed, but, as I told you, whatever might happen in the future, I should not be found fighting desperately as I saw myself doing there.

It is true that I did so, but it was only a sort of a frenzy.