Theos-Talk Archives (October 2008 Message tt00599)

>" She (Blavatsky) continued these Casandra-like prophecies with a
maddening 
> monotony, but her audience was far too reverential to try to change 
> the subject. We sat in the four corners of the compartment, Madame 
> Blavatsky facing the engine, Mr. Oakley sitting opposite to her with 
> the resigned expression of an early Christian martyr; while Mrs. 
> Oakley, weeping profusely, and with a face of ever-increasing horror, 
> sat opposite to me."
>