If this were so she would quite naturally fill the role of the lover of the piece with the last man who had happened to impress her.

Hence the resemblance." "You presuppose a great deal, Bickley, including supernatural cunning and unexampled hypnotic influence.

I don't know, first, why she should be so anxious to add another impression to the many we have received in this place; and, secondly, if she was, how she managed to mesmerise three average but totally different men into seeing the same things.

My explanation is that you were deceived as to the likeness, which, mind you, I did not recognise; nor, apparently, did Bastin." "Bastin never recognises anything.

But if you are in doubt, ask Yva herself.