human
I don't know quite how to tell you this next. It came on the way back from India. She had gone there--but perhaps you won't be interested to know why she went. Though I was more than twenty, I'd never had what you might call a flirtation. I'd been kept by the Guides away from men--as I'd once been kept from other children. There was a young Englishman on the steamer. And I liked him.
gpt
Oh, not that! she cried;
human
But I liked him, though never any more--he was a friend and girls need to play. But he wanted to be more than a friend. Aunt Paula passed us on the deck one evening. After I had gone to bed, she came into my stateroom. When the power is in her, I know it--and I never saw it so strong as that night. It shone out of her. But that wasn't the strange thing. Only twice before, had I heard the voices speak from her mouth--mostly, she used to tell me what they said to her. But it was not Aunt Paula talking then--it was Martha, her first and best control. Shall I tell you all she said?