"But how do they affect your philosophy?"
"They affect it vitally."
"In the way of confirmation or otherwise?"
"Confirmation."
"You mean that your philosophy is already conclusively proved, and yet made more conclusive by Ethelberta?"
"Put it that way, if you like."
"Is there no hope," I asked, "that you will be able one day to communicate the reasons to us?"
"None," he answered. "But what I can do, and will do, if I live long enough, is to show that all of you are acting much as I am acting in regard to Ethelberta."
"But we are not all risking our lives on thoroughbred horses."
"You are running far bigger risks than that," he said; "and you are fools not to see it. Did I not tell you that I am revising my lectures?"