“Was I there?” he interrupted.
“Oh, it wasn’t here! it was ever so long ago, while my husband was alive.”
“Did you see your husband?”
“Yes,” she said flushing, “and he was just like all the other men. He wore no mask, and he did not care one bit who might recognize him.”
“You had been better not gone,” said the man decidedly.
“Yes, I think so; I lost all my love for my husband that night, and killed all my faith in mankind forever.”
“Why did you be possessed to go?”
“I went because I did not want to be deceived in the way that many women are deceived.”
Von Ibn laughed.
“You know now all of everything, you think?”