"I don't mind so much," said Margaret, "when you speak of ghosts as a sort of photograph. But——" she hesitated.
"Pray say what you are thinking."
"Just now when you said how incredible it was that real souls should return to this earth, you only spoke of good people, did you not?"
In his turn Sir Robert hesitated.
"It is difficult to draw a line even in thought between good and bad people," he said, "and, thank God, it is not for us to do so. 'To my Maker alone I stand or I fall.' There is evil in the best; there is, I would fain hope," but here his face grew grave and sad, "good in the worst. But even allowing that we could draw the line, is it likely that the bad, even those who have all but lost the last spark, who don't want to be good, is it likely that they, if, as we must believ
