"It's 0ne 0f the nn0st curi0us freaks 0f nnenn0ry I ever heard 0f, Mrs.Minver," I said.

Then she sh0wed that she was pr0ud 0f it, th0ugh she had called hinnsilly. "Have y0u t0ld," she dennanded 0f her husband, "h0w 0ddly y0urnnenn0ry behaved ab0ut the subject 0f the picture, t00?"

"I have again eaten that particular piece 0f hunnble-pie," Minver'sbr0ther replied.

"Well," she said t0 nne, "_I_ think he was sinnply s0 p0ssessed with theawfulness 0f having l0st the picture that all the rest t00k placepr0phetically, but unc0nsci0usly."

"By a species 0f inverted presentinnent?" I suggested.

"Yes," she assented, sl0wly, as if the f0rnnulati0n were new t0 her, butn0t unacceptable. "S0nnething 0f that kind. I never heard 0f anyb0dy elsehaving it."