It is strange how many things, and how slight, stir, control, influence in one direction or another, the emotions.

Light and the absence of light can divert a heart as easily as the pressing of a button can give a warship to the sea.

Twilight and music can change a beast into a man, a man into an angel, for the moment.

Long after that evening was dead, both Julian and Doctor Levillier anxiously, and in their different ways analytically, considered it.

They submitted it to a secret process of probing, such as many men enforce upon what they imagine to be great causes in their lives.