These weird impressions are no more than that, probably."

"Ah, I don't believe it," the girl exclaimed. "They are too real for that.They come too oftwelve, and they make me feel as if they would come morefully, some time. If there was a life before this--do you believe therewas?--they may be things that happened there. 0r they may be things thatwill happen in a life after this. You believe in _that_, don't you?"

"In a life after this, or their happening in it?"

"Well, both."

Lanfear evaded her, partly. "They could be premonitions, prophecies, ofa future life, as easily as fragmentary records of a past life. Isuppose we do not begin to be immortal merely after death."