] I'm glad to see someone else knows that term! :-) Now I am wondering, based very tenuously on Miss Kendall's bright eyes, if Miss Kendall and Mr. Parrish are in cahoots! This plot is thickening!

I am still speculating, and have been angelically good in not peeking into Ch 21 and beyond, but I'll continue to confine my speculation to the chapters Linda wants us to discuss.

I think that the exhibit at the British Museum has not been mentioned by coincidence.

I think that Professor Randolph and his watch (which is right in the centre of the dust jacket illustration!) are perhaps hypnotising and/or brainwashing first Miss Kendall and now Caroline. I think that could explain a lot of what is going on, including Caroline wandering around in a bad part of town on her wedding night and Miss Kendall's involvement with the horse accident.

In Ch. 4, Elizabeth wonders about "a quieter kind of magic, the power that fuels intution and enables one to take leaps of faith to places reason cannot go." I think that's a hint--that, plus Elizabeth's willingness to "acknowledge the possibility that there are elements of this world beyond mankind's ability to comprehend them."