"There's no such thing! Experience is no more reduplicated than faces are."
"Of course, I don't mean down to the smallest detail," John Gano had explained.
"Oh, as to that, we have birth and death in common, if that's all."
"There's a wonderful family likeness in the other facts of life," his uncle persisted.
"Yes," said Mrs. Gano; "it is when we are young that we think there could never have been anything to match our experience."
"Then do you think now that your life has been a replica of Mrs. Otway's?"
Mrs. Gano smiled.
"Oh no," said Val, with a pleased confidence, "there was never anybody just like us before."
They all laughed.