Chapter 14

“It looked like a sunbeam true enough,” he said. “I don’t know, it always comes when I immerse any living thing. Perhaps,” he continued, smiling, “perhaps it is the vital spark of the creature escaping to the source from whence it came.” I saw he was mocking, and threatened him with a mahl-stick, but he only laughed and changed the subject. “Stay to lunch. Geneviève will be here directly.” “I saw her going to early mass,” I said, “and she looked as fresh and sweet as that lily—before you destroyed it.” “Do you thin…