Eat that and close your eyes and you can look back and tell us all the wonders of the past.

That is to say," he added with a faint smile, "if the magic works." "But the magic never does work," she protested with a little sigh, "and I am not in the least interested in the past.

Tell me something about the future ?" "Surely that is easier," he answered.

"Over the past we have lost our control,--what has been must remain to the end of time.

The future is ours to do what we will with." "That sounds so reasonable," the Duchess declared, "and it is so absolutely false.