RAVENSBANE Ah! Peculiar.
RACHEL This, now, is the line of life.
RAVENSBANE Of life, yes?
RACHEL But it begins so abruptly, and see! it breaks off and ends nowhere. And just so here with this line—the line of—of love.
RAVENSBANE Of love. So; it breaks?
RACHEL Yes.
RAVENSBANE Ah, then, that must be the heart line.
RACHEL I am afraid your lordship is very fickle.
MISTRESS MERTON [Horrified.] I tell you, Gilead, they are fortune-telling!