Eveline. Oh! I should like it of all things; where shall we go?
Sarah. Let us go to old Kate Merrill's. They say she can read the future as we do the past, by hand, tea-cups, or cards. Come, Mary Ann.
Mary Ann. Excuse me, girls, if I do not go with you. I do not think it is right to have our fortunes told.
Sophronia. Not right? why not?
Mary Ann. Because, if it had been best for us to know the future, I think God would have revealed it to us.
Sarah. Oh, but you know this is only for amusement.
Eveline. Of course, we shall not believe a word she says.
Mary Ann. If it is only for amusement, I think we can find others far more rational and innocent. But depend upon it, girls, you would not wish to go, if there were not in your minds a little of credulous feeling?
Sophronia. Well, I am sure I am not credulous.
Mary Ann. Do not be offended, Sophronia; I only meant that we are all of us more inclined to believe these things than we at first imagine.