“Yes.”
“Was it not remarkable?”
“Very.”
“Have you any theory in regard to it different from mine?”
“I have no theory on the subject,” said Mr. Dainty. “The whole thing is beyond my reach.”
“Are you familiar with these modern phenomena, which some call, oddly enough, spiritualism?”
A look of disgust came into the face of Mr. Dainty, as he answered,—
“No.”
“If you were familiar with them, either from reading or observation,” said the doctor, “you might be inclined to think as I do touching your daughter’s sudden terror, which was followed by so deep a prostration of mind and body.”
“Her imagination,” said Mr. Fleetwood, “is no doubt far more active than we had supposed, and she may have an idiosyncrasy in regard to snakes which threw her into a condition of paralyzing terror when George declared that the woman had serpents crawling all over her. I am sure that her eyes were remarkably snaky at the time. This, to me, is a more intelligible explanation.”