“Yes; but are we prepared to go so far?”
“This man is himself a mystic. He gives his evidence clearly enough.”
“And do you credit it?”
“Every word! Could I but get the necessary subject, I would convince you; I would go farther than M. Binet in unveiling the vast scheme of compensation and retribution carried about in the vast recesses of the human soul.”
“Find the subject and I will find the money,” laughed Aubrey.
“Do you mean it, Aubrey? Will you join me in carrying forward a search for more light on the mysteries of existence?”
“I mean it. And now, Reuel, come down from the clouds, and come with me to a concert.”
“Tonight?”
“Yes, ‘tonight,’” mimicked the other. “The blacker the night, the greater the need of amusement. You go out too little.”
“Who gives the concert?”