Still it may help--it may help.

In a tangled web, no one may say which will be the thread which patiently followed may unravel the skein." "Belike she knows more than she would say," suggested Cuthbert quickly.

"If she can look into the future, sure she may look into the past likewise--" But Joanna stopped him by a strange gesture.
"Peace, foolish boy! Thinkest thou if gipsy lore could unravel the riddle, that it had not long ago become known to me?
We have our gifts, our powers, our arts, and well we know how to use them be it for good or ill.

But we know full well what the limits are.

And if men know it not, it is more their blindness than our skill that keeps them in ignorance.