My mother would think I ought to see a doctor--and if you knew that doctor! He," and she nodded towards Lord Ragnall, "would think that my engagement had upset me, or that I had grown rather more religious than I ought to be at my age, and been reflecting too much--well, on the end of all things.
From a child I have understood that I am a mystery set in the midst of many other mysteries.

It all came to me one night when I was about nine years old.

I seemed to see the past and the future, although I could grasp neither.

Such a long, long past and such an infinite future.

I don't know what I saw, and still see sometimes.