"Well, there's a great deal in it," said Miss Bowyer. "I have had a good deal of experience. There's a great deal more in it than you think." "I don't quite understand you," said Phillida. "No; of course not. I am a faith-healer myself." "Are you?" said Phillida, mechanically, with a slight mental shudder at finding herself thus classified with one for whom she did not feel any affinity. "Yes; that is, I _was_. I began as a faith-doctor, but I found there was a great deal more in it, don't you know?" "A great deal more in it?" queried Phillida. "A great deal more of what, may I ask?" "Oh, everything, you know." This was not clarifying, and Phillida waited without responding until the metaphysical practitioner should deign to explain. "I mean there's a great deal more science in it, as well as a great deal more success, usefulness, and--and--and remuneration to be had out of it than you think." "Oh," said Phillida, not knowing what else to say. "Yes," said Eleanor Arabella Bowyer with a smile. She had a way of waiting for the sense of her words to soak into the minds of her hearers, and she now watched Phillida for a moment before proceeding. "You see when I began I didn't know anything about Christian Science,--the new science of mental healing, faith-cure, psychopathy,--by which you act on the spirit and through the spirit upon the body. Matter is subject to mind. Matter is unreal. All merely physical treatment of disease is on the mortal plane." Miss Bowyer paused here waiting for this great truth to produce its effect; then she said, "Don't you think so?" and looked straight at Phillida. "I haven't thought a great deal about it," said Phillida. "No?" This was said with the rising inflection. "I thought not; mere faith-healing doesn't require much thought. I know, you see, having been a faith-healer at first. But we must go deeper. We must always go deeper. Don't you think so?" "I don't understand just what you mean," said Phillida. "You see," said Miss Bowyer, "faith-healing is a primitive and apostolic mode of healing the sick." Miss Bowyer paused, and Phillida said, "Yes," in a hesitant way; for even the things she believed seemed false when uttered by Eleanor Bowyer. "Well, ours is a scientific age. Now we practise--we revive this mode of healing, but in a scientific spirit, in the spirit of our age, and with a great deal more of knowledge than people had in ancient times. We reject the belief in evil; we call it unreal. Disease is a mistake. We teach faith in the unity of God the All-good." Miss Bowyer evidently expected Phillida to say something at this point, but as she did not, Miss Bowyer was forced to proceed without encouragement.