"You have a secret," he said.

"Yes," I said. And to myself I added, "Alas!"

"Your secret is," he said, "that there is a
difference between you and the other girls."

It was positively uncanny! I'VE felt that for
years! But no one else had ever suspected it before.

"Mr. Finch," I said, "I must have TOLD you that --
or else it was just a wild guess. You COULDN'T have
gotten it psychically. HOW did you know it?"

"One knows these things," he said -- a trifle sadly,
I thought. "They come to one -- out of the

Silences; one knows not how. It is better not to
ask how! It is better not to question! It is better
to accept! Do you not feel it so?

Sometimes I think that Fothergil Finch is the
only man who has ever understood me.

You see, I am Dual in my personality.

There is the real Ego, and there is the Alter Ego.

And, besides these, I have so many moods which