"She has no friends but you and Minna; no servant but old David."
"And she has never learned anything of Science or Art?"
"From whom?" said the pastor.
"Then, when she discusses such matters very pertinently, as she has often done with me, what would you infer?"
"That the girl may, perhaps, during all these years of silence, have acquired such faculties as were possessed by Apollonius of Tyana, and by certain so-called wizards, who were burned by the Inquisition, which rejected the idea of second sight."
"When she talks Arabic, what can you say?"
"The history of medicine contains many accredited instances of women who spoke languages they did not understand."
"What can I do?" said Wilfrid. "She knows things concerning my past life of which the secret lay in me."
"We will see if she can tell me any thoughts that I have never spoken to any one," said Pastor Becker.
Minna came into the room.