"The Soul?"…
The music had come to an end, and the people were moving about them.
Cornelia came up and drawled:—
"Tom and I are going on,—will you go with us?"
When Isabelle reached her hostess, she had but one idea in her mind, and exclaimed impulsively to that somewhat bored lady:—
"Who is that man just going out? With gray hair? The tall, thin man?"
"Dr. Renault? He's a surgeon, operates on children,—has done something or other lately."…
She smiled at Isabelle's impulsiveness, and turned to another.
'A surgeon,' Isabelle thought. 'What has he to do with the soul?'
In a few moments she had a chance to repeat her question aloud to Dr.
Renault when they left the house together.
"Did you ever hear," he replied directly, "that a house divided against itself will fall?"