"From my father," said Miss Enistor dryly; "and if you met him, Amy, you would not think he was the man to teach nonsense!"
"Then he's got a bee in his bonnet."
"He doesn't wear a bonnet."
"Oh, Alice, you know perfectly well what I mean. He's crazy!"
Miss Enistor laughed. "I think my father is the sanest person I have ever met, Amy. Why shouldn't reincarnation be a great truth?"
"It isn't in the Bible," said Mrs. Barrast pettishly, for the conversation being beyond her was somewhat boring to her small intellect. "And what isn't in the Bible is wrong."
"You are of the Caliph Omar's opinion with regard to the Koran when he ordered the library of Alexandria to be burnt," observed Eberstein; "but if you will read St. Matthew, verse 14, chapter xi, you will find that reincarnation is plainly acknowledged. Also in St. John's Gospel, chapter ix, verses 2 and 3, it is plainly hinted at. Origen, the most learned of the Christian Fathers, believed in the law of rebirth and——"
"Oh, it's all nonsense," interrupted Mrs. Barrast, weary of the explanation.
"So be it," admitted the doctor quietly, "it is all nonsense. Your brain is the measure of the universe."