1The guest-master poked the sinking fire into a last effort. “So am I,” he said, and then with profound conviction, “That tale is true.”
“But how could it be true?” asked Willow.
“I should be readier to believe it true if Sarnac had not brought in Sunray as Hetty,” said Radiant. “It was very dreamlike, the way Hetty grew more and more like his dear lady and at last dissolved altogether into her.”
“But if Smith was a sort of anticipation of Sarnac,” said Starlight, “then it was natural for him to choose as his love a sort of anticipation of Sunray.”
“But are there any other anticipations in the story?” asked Willow. “Did you recognise any other people who are intimate with you both. Is there a Fanny in this world? Is there a Matilda Good or a brother Ernest? Was Sarnac’s mother like Mar
