"On me?" I echoed.
He smiled a little.
"Why, yes! A woman always decides."
I turned my eyes again towards the sky. Long lines of delicate pale
blue and green were now intermingled with the amber light of the
after-glow, and the whole scene was one of indescribable grandeur and
beauty.
"I wish I could understand,"--I murmured.
"Let me help you,"--he said, gently. "Possibly I can make things
clearer for you. You are just now under the spell of your own psychic
impressions and memories. You think you have seen strange
episodes--these are nothing but pictures stored far away back in the
cells of your spiritual brain, which (through the medium of your
present material brain) project on your vision not only presentments
and reflections of past scenes and events, but which also reproduce the
very words and sounds attending those scenes and events. That is all.
Loch Coruisk has shown you nothing but itself in varying effects of
light and cloud--there is no mystery here but the everlasting mystery
of Nature in which you and I play our several parts. What you have seen
or heard I do not know--for each individual experience is and always
must be different. All that I am fully conscious of is, that our having
met and our being here together to-day is, as it were, the mending of a
broken chain. But it rests with you--and even with me--to break it once
more if we choose."
I was silent, not because I could not but because I dared not speak.
All my life seemed suddenly to hang on the point of a hair's-breadth of
possibility.
"I think,"--he continued in the same quiet voice--"that just now we may
let things take their ordinary course. You and I"--here he paused, and
impelled by some secret emotion I lifted my eyes to his. Instinctively,
and with a rush of feeling, we stretched out our hands to each other.
He clasped mine in his own, and stooping his head kissed them tenderly.
"You and I,"--he went on--"have met before in many a phase of life and
on many a plane of thought--and I believe we know and realise this. Let
us be satisfied so far--and if destiny has anything of happiness or
wisdom in store for us let us try to assist its fulfilment and not
stand in the way."