“Monsieur and madame Spencer-Poole!”
“You mean,” Leilah replied, “am I a Catholic? No, I am an Episcopalian. But my views, I fear, are not orthodox. I have got so far that I believe fully in the Vidyâ.”
She had cited the book at the dinner table but, at the time, distracted by Marie de Fresnoy, Tempest had not heard; now he exclaimed at it.
“The Vidyâ! Of all things! Why not the Upanishads?”
A servant announced:
“Madame la marquise de Charleroi!”
Leilah made a little gesture. “The Upanishads, too. I have great faith in them also. Their conceptions seem to me the most perfect that the human mind has evolved, that is, if it were a human mind that evolved them.”
A servant announced:
“Madame la princesse Orlonna!”