Professor Bodley leaned forward to ask a question:
"How would you punish him, young lady?"
The girl shook her head.
"I don't know—it will come to me."
"She will hear a voice within, eh?" laughed Dr. Zacharie.
"Ah—so you hear voices?" demanded the examiner.
"Oh, yes, she does," said Dr. Zacharie.
"We all hear voices within," said Paula seriously.
She stopped speaking. The men all looked at each other significantly. Then she went on:
"Something tells us to do this or that, and we obey. We obey blindly—instinctively. Men call it reason, but it's only intuition."