“Have you often resisted?”
“Not very often, but enough to learn the lesson.”
“And you have always fulfilled the prophecy?”
“Always.”
There was a short silence during which Molly kept her eyes on her work, while Amos stood silently beside the fire as if there was nothing more to be said. Finally Mr. Cabot knocked the ashes from his cigar and asked, with his pleasantest smile, “Do you think if one of these scenes involved the actions of another person than yourself, that person would also carry it out?”
“I think so.”
“That if you told me, for instance, of something I should do to-morrow at twelve o’clock, I should do it?”
“I think so.”
“Well, what am I going to do to-morrow at noon, as the clock strikes twelve?”
