“How can there be any other than a natural cause, my lady? God and Nature are one. God is the causing Nature.—Tell me, is not the music heard only in stormy nights, or at least nights with a good deal of wind?”
“I have heard it in the daytime!”
“On a still day?”
“I think not. I think too I never heard it on a still summer night.”
“Do you think it comes in all storms?”
“I think not.”
“Then perhaps it has something to do not merely with the wind, but with the direction of the wind!”
“Perhaps. I cannot say.”
“That might account for the uncertainty of its visits! The instrument may be accessible, yet its converse with the operating power so rare that it has not yet been discovered. It is a case in which experiment is not permitted us: we cannot make a wind blow, neither can we vary the direction of the wind blowing; observation alone is left us, and that can be only at such times when the sound is heard.”
“Then you can do nothing till the music comes again?”