Chapter 51

The remaining possibility of the relations between Margaret and the Mummy Queen was that the witch had the power in some mysterious way to change places with the other and that this view of things could not be so easily given up and there were too many suspicious circumstances to justify it, now that my attention was fixed on her and my intelligence realized the possibility and Hence all the strange and incomprehensible things that had gone on in our lives in the last few days began to come into my mind, and at first they all swarmed upon me in a jumbled mass; But again, in my working life, the habit of my mind prevailed, and order took over and I found it easier now to control myself; For there was something to be understood, and some work to be done; and though she was of the unfortunate sort, she was or might be hostile to Margaret but Margaret herself was at stake and I was thinking and fighting for her; However, if I were to work in the dark, I might be harmful to her and my fi