'Yes,' said Prim thoughtfully; 'I know. It is very curious.'
'Witches, for instance?' said Hazel, with perfect gravity.
'No,' said Prim earnestly, 'I don't mean out-of-the-way people at all; though it is something "uncanny"—as it seems;—queer; I have heard of instances.'
'I have felt them,' said Rollo.
Primrose went into a brown study over the question.
'But do you think,' Rollo went on gravely addressing Wych Hazel, 'that this sort of mental action can take place except where there are strong sympathetic—or other—relations between the parties?'
'So that the magnet finds out the iron, when it would pass by the lead?—is that what you mean?'
A significant, quick, keen look; and then Rollo said, very gravely,
'But it strikes me we have got the thing reversed. Is it not rather the iron that finds the magnet?'
'The magnet must be conscious too,' said Hazel. 'And I think it moves—where the iron is in sufficient quantity.'